Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stump in the New Hampshire campaign, although he does not deny that his supporters there are trying to get him at least 5% of the total vote in the state's March 7 primary, and will spend $200,000 doing it. Mills calmly calls the whole thing "a draft movement." His obvious strategy is to stay in the nomination race without getting into open electioneering. Then, if all goes well enough, he could make more trouble in later primaries while reminding Democrats that he is indeed available, even for the vice presidency...
...dissemble (2 points). You move two big spaces into pubescence, entering into meaningful relationships and having an identity crisis. At college, you study hotel management and become socially aware by making friends with a black. By working as a campus spy for the CIA, you get a draft deferment and recommendations for a job with a good hotel chair. Now you are married and have a kid; Daddy drops dead in front of the television. A few quick success points managing the Chicago Hilton during the Democratic Convention, a gold utility closed key as a retirement gift--fortunately you have...
...absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to "wars of national liberation." The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
Enough response has been shown in the proposal to draft, sign, and display The Declaration of 1976, to place it before the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission for staff study and a plan for possible implementation. This commission was created by Congress in 1966 (Public Law 89-49) to plan and coordinate events marking our 200th anniversary...
While Kelly has been finagling with the WHA this month (he went to California for a player draft this weekend), his hockey ream has been recovering. The Terriers have won nine in a row, and they should be flying when they take on Harvard tonight in the Beanpot finals...