Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explain exactly what goes on at the Writing Center, Weinstein gave the example of the undergraduate who came in hoping to clarify her thoughts for a paper about de Tocqueville. As with most of the students who come to the center, she didn't appear with a draft in hand. She was having trouble getting started. Weinstein suggested that she take a desk outside the office and "think the question through on paper." To explain what he meant, he posed another question for himself and demonstrated. The staff, Weinstein said, will never actually do any of the work on students...
...fans of the Baltimore Orioles, for those or us who have lived and died with the Birds since the first time we saw Brooks Robinson glove a hard shot at third base, last Thursday's free-agent draft came as a mortal blow. Expected, yes, but deadly nevertheless...
...problem with talking about the free-agent draft is that in your heart, you know the players are right. Baseball is a business and you've got to let a talented ballplayer get what he's worth from whomever will give...
Simon said Carter's proposed "pardon" would benefit only 4400 draft evaders, the "whitest and best-off group financially," and would subject deserters to a case-by-case review which the speakers said would be slow and inherently discriminatory
Grant a blanket pardon to the draft dodgers of the Viet Nam War. Also, he probably would set up review boards to decide the cases of war-era deserters and perhaps pardon those who went AWOL because of opposition...