Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government requires all major Federal contractors to draft extensive plans for ending discriminatory hiring practices...
...quoted the other day as saying, 'Well, I guess Mr. Magruder failed my course in ethics,' and I think he is correct ... He tells me my ethics are bad. Yet he was indicted for criminal charges. He recommended on the Washington Monument grounds that students burn their draft cards and that we have mass demonstrations, shut down the city of Washington. Now here are ethical, legitimate people whom I respected. I respect Mr. Coffin tremendously ... We had become somewhat inured to using some activities that would help us in accomplishing what we thought was a legitimate cause...
...Diego sits one of the strangest arks since Noah abandoned his on top of Mount Ararat. Once it was a two-deck ferryboat named the Point Loma that carried some 480 passengers on its regular run between San Diego and Coronado. Rendered obsolete by a bridge, the shallow-draft vessel was sold two years ago for $15,000 to a Franciscan missionary named Luke Tupper, who began to install two medical clinics, an operating room, two dental clinics and a pharmacy. He also provided a new name: the Esperanto (Portuguese for hope). This month he officially dedicated...
THAT HAS there been about the character of this far-off struggle that has changed the lives of many of us? The professional sophists claim students opposed the war because they feared the draft. This analysis is a cousin of the explanation that hot weather caused ghetto rebellions. No revealing correlation between draft status and the intensity of antiwar militance has ever been proferred, and the skeptics will have to search deeper for a reasonable explanation...
During the novel's 24 hours, citizens line up obediently to vote for the congressional candidate who, as chairman of the local draft board, channeled Brown's surrogate son into the swamps of Southeast Asia. Ubiquitous television sets keep vigil over three astronauts lost on a return flight from the moon. Murder in his mind, anguish in his heart, Brown must pace through his daily routine while mutely suffering Lear's rage at the fly that outlives Cordelia...