Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President . . . urges that we be patient with the Communist hoodlums who, as of this very moment, are torturing and brainwashing American uniformed men in Communist dungeons ... If any Senator in the future can justify a vote to draft the sons of American mothers, then he must repudiate this shrinking show of weakness...
Villeda Morales, freed from the time-honored obligation of leading what would have been Honduras' 135th revolution, said in relief: "The presidency is not worth the life of a single Honduran." President Lozano converted Congress into a Council of State to draft a new constitution under which another, and more decisive election can be attempted - but probably not before...
Under the plan the prevailing draft conditions would be continued for men 18 1/2 through 25. Boys aged 17 and 18 could volunteer, train for eight months, and then go into the reserves subject to continued reserve training, and to call for active duty in emergencies...
...Administration would ask Congress in January to continue the draft for four years and establish a modified UMT that would take some young men (up to 100,000) for six months basic training and a period of reserve service...
...Paris. Hemingway personally liberated the Ritz Hotel, posted a guard below to notify incoming friends: "Papa took good hotel. Plenty stuff in cellar." Commander of the Chain. The postwar Hemingway settled into another good hotel, the Gritti in Venice, to write "the big book" about World War II (a draft is now finished). But a piece of gun wadding went into his eye during a duck hunt and started an infection that doctors feared was going to kill him. Wanting to get one more story out of himself, he put the big book aside and batted out Across the River...