Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the toughest language he has aimed at Capitol Hill during his 5½ years in the presidency. Target of the salvo: the defense reorganization bill unanimously reported out by "Uncle Carl" Vinson's House Armed Services Committee. When he first laid eyes on the committee's draft in mid-May, the President dubbed it "progress." But close analysis showed that three Vinson & Co. provisions sliced deep into the substance of the Administration's painstakingly thought-out proposal (TIME, April 14). Ike did a slow burn, then burst out with a ringing summons to the House...
Full of a brandied kind of Scots nationalism, a bearded, kilted, 6-ft. 5½-in. classical scholar named Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun Young has for years fought an amiable but unremitting war to drive out the Sassenach. In 1942 he was jailed for not submitting to the English draft-not because it was a draft, but because it was English. After he was led to the lockup, a band of bagpipers skirled round the building playing a composition in his honor, The Unjust Incarceration. In 1944 he ran gallantly, although unsuccessfully, for Parliament on a platform of. roughly, "Remember Bannockburn...
...found a job in one of those international schools. A country club affair for various breeds of brats. The math teacher had the grippe and all I did was fake a college degree. It was a great job, all ski trips and German beer. Wrote the draft board I was getting educated and they lapped it up. 'Europe' has a ring of enchantment for the boys back home...
...Wrote home for money and they sent it quick. Told them if they didn't I'd take up bull-fighting; or maybe gun-running in Algeria. They always liked me pretty much, anyway. I let the draft boys know I was studying Spanish for some diplomatic spot, so between us we were all happy...
...Heresy. The walkout at Ljubljana marked the worst crisis in relations between Russia and Yugoslavia since Khrushchev's crow-eating visit to Belgrade in 1955 to apologize for Stalin's 1948 expulsion of Yugoslavia from "the camp of Socialism." This time Khrushchev himself was wroth, because the draft program which Tito and his colleagues prepared for their party congress blamed...