Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal deficit can be held to a mere $60 billion on a budget that will include $3.4 million for a dairy-and beekeeping-indemnity program, and $45 million to keep the Selective Service System functioning-just in case today's all-volunteer Army ever wants to draft somebody...
...public, Humphrey's yearning to become President has abated. "I am a U.S. Senator with no overriding ambition to be anything else," he says. "I am a free spirit." But he has acknowledged that he would accept a draft for the nomination ("I'd accept and run and win"), although he would not actively seek the nomination by going through the bone-crushing primaries. For the moment, his strategy rests on the assumption that no one will reach the convention with enough delegates to win, since there are too many candidates and too many primaries. In that case...
With Kansas City still in last place when the baseball draft began in 1965, Finley took advantage of early-round selections to sign Outfielder Rick Monday and Third Baseman Sal Bando. The next year he grabbed Reggie Jackson for $85,000. In 1968, the year Finley transplanted the A's to Oakland, he flew to Mansfield, La., to corral a high school fastballer named Vida Blue for a more modest $35,000. Three years ago, Bargain Hunter Finley paid $3,000 for an obscure 17-year-old named Claudell Washington. This year Washington is the A's leading hitter, batting...
...head António de Spinola, the popular general who had publicly criticized the Caetano regime for continuing the war against the rebel movements in Portugal's African territories. Spinola and the M.F.A. pledged that within a year elections would be held for a Constituent Assembly empowered to draft a democratic constitution...
Despite the injury, McInally left for the Bengals' training camp yesterday. He was a fifth-round draft choice for the team...