Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...healthy side, Acheson had helped polish the final draft of the North Atlantic pact. It now pledged the U.S. to defend Western Europe with armed force, if necessary-reserving to the U.S. the right to determine when such action was "necessary." Acheson felt that this compromise was forthright enough to reassure Western Europeans, while worded properly to reassure Senators, who didn't want to surrender their Constitutional right to declare war. Norway was all set to climb aboard. Even Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen, who thought the U.S. was trying to hustle him through the gate, indicated...
...Draft in time of peace...
Students who try out must submit, before April 1, a written draft of their speech, which must be either a summary of scholarly work or an original expression. Oral trials will then be held in mid-April...
Secretary Acheson met with the Foreign Relations Committee in secret session, spent three hours going over the working draft of the pact. The only suggested changes, said one Senator, were a "phrase here and a word there." At week's end, Acheson called in the ambassadors of the North Atlantic countries, told them that they would have a pact with teeth in it after all, and with the full knowledge and consent of the Foreign Relations Committee. And in Norway, the ruling Labor Party gave unmistakable evidence that it thoroughly understood the alarums and excursions of parliamentary government...
...Eisler episode--or rather the lack of an "episode"--with instances of egg-throwing and organized hectoring by self-appointed student vigilantes that have dogged "free institutions of learning" throughout the country. The College itself had a disagreeable taste of this last year in the case of the anti-draft meeting in Sanders Theater. That was something most undergraduates were sorry about. The orderly attention to Gerhart Eisler Monday night, on the other hand, was something to be a little proud...