Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make it," he says, trying to explain the obsession that returned him so often to the precarious profession. His first to make jazz was called "The Band that Plays the Blues," which blew its way around a swing-crazy countryside from 1936 until it was broken up by the draft. In 1944 he organized the Herman Herd, the band whose piledriver precision so bemused Composer Igor Stravinsky that he wrote his Ebony Concerto for it. The outfit made Herman the top bandsman in the land. He disbanded it because it left him too little time for wife and daughter...
...were told about the plan Monday and asked a lot of questions them which were not answered, including whether all this service would legally make us draft exempt," said one. "Despite our lack of complete information and the suddenness of the new plan, we were told that we had to sign on the dotted, line by Wednesday noon. Some of us just weren't willing to take the chance...
...clean up this situation, Premier Yoshida last winter instructed Education Minister Shigeo Odachi to draft legislation outlawing the teaching of Communism in the nation's schools. Odachi-former Home Minister and boss of Japan's infamous wartime police, who was barred from public office during the U.S. occupation-happily obliged, but the remedy he produced looked to many almost as bad as the disease it was designed to cure. As passed by the Lower House of the Diet, Odachi's bill would have made it a criminal offense for any teacher to espouse the cause...
...Gastonia, N.C., the county draft board received a letter: "Dear Sir: I am suffering from romantic fever and my wife is pregnant. . . Please excuse me from the draft...
...seniors in colleges throughout the country, Assistant Air Force Secretary H. Lee White announced Friday in Washington. Previously, the Air Force had warned that seniors who failed to quality for flight training would not receive their promised commissions in the Air Force Reserve and might have to face the draft after graduation in June...