Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zorza and Hengen are also planning a general canvassing for Senator Charles E. Goodell's (R.N.Y.) S-3000 Resolution, which calls for complete withdrawal from Vietnam by Dec. 1, 1970. In addition, they hope to recruit workers for peace candidates and to begin a repeal-the-draft campaign...
...found a new form!' I can only write about something that bothers me enough to go to a room and write all day, play with my kids, have trouble sleeping, get up, write, have trouble sleeping, and go on like that for three months to get a draft. I can't be concerned with a form; I can only be concerned with an issue. When you create the total enigma, you will then be the ultimate hero. You will have created a play which no one can understand completely at any given moment. Therefore it's totally brilliant. Within...
...Bahr had three sessions with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, bringing to 30 hours the time the two men have spent together since Jan. 30. The talks are totally shrouded in secrecy. Nevertheless, some diplomats in Moscow suspect that the two sides may be nearing agreement on a joint draft of a renunciation-of-force treaty. Such an agreement would undoubtedly open the way for the West German financial aid and technical know-how that the Soviets so badly need to help their troubled economy...
Show-Biz Instincts. Though Murphy will undoubtedly be an early choice in the professional basketball draft, some scouts feel that he is not tall enough to make it in the pros. Perhaps not, when he is just standing there-5 ft. 10 in. of him relaxed and at rest. But when he uncoils into one of his fantastic jumps, he is clearly a man to look up to. Rival coaches simply shake their heads when he blocks the shots of players nearly a foot taller; Murphy's spring is so remarkable that in several games he has actually been...
...Testament and Apocrypha went through laborious stages of development. First, a single translator produced each book; then he submitted it to his panel for line-by-line, verse-by-verse scrutiny. Next came the literary panel, whose task was to approve or improve the wording. Then the draft went back to the translating panel to ensure that correct meanings had not been obscured in the process. "Passages of particular difficulty," says Anglican Driver, "passed many times between panels. The most difficult book...