Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans must "put up the kind of candidates who can win," said he, "and stand for frank facing of issues as they exist today, with honest and courageous solutions." Before Rockefeller landed in New York, Long Island Congressman Stuyvesant Wainwright, whose brother works for Rockefeller, announced from Washington a "draft Rockefeller" movement ready to set up a Midwestern headquarters. He was shortly seconded by Wisconsin's Congressman Alvin O'Konski, who promised that Rockefeller would have a full slate of delegates in the April Wisconsin primaries. By week's end Rocky was no longer a possible contender...
Life is the novelist's first draft. This elementary fact periodically brings out the detective in some critics and biographers. Treating a book as a case to be solved, the literary sleuth scours the author's life for telltale clues. With the instincts of Scotland Yard's finest, George D. Painter, a curator of the British Museum, has now tackled the massive Proust case. His findings may strike some readers as anticlimactic. It appears that Marcel Proust based Remembrance of Things Past on his remembrance of things past...
Back from his swing through the Urals and Siberia, Nixon had gone into seclusion at the U.S. embassy for two days to draft the speech for what he saw as an unprecedented opportunity to speak plainly about Soviet-American relations. He sweated his first draft of 5,000 words down to 2,000 to fit into half an hour, with another 30 minutes' time for translation. At his side as he spoke was his own interpreter, the U.S. State Department's Alexander Akalovsky, charged with translating in the most effective way possible-thought by thought, but never more...
...April 1934 on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor (six months' probation), and in November some of his would-be followers got disgusted with his teaching, drove him out of town. He set up permanent headquarters in Chicago, preached against the white man's draft registration in World War II. When FBI agents tracked him to his mother's Chicago home in September 1942, they found him rolled up in a carpet under her bed. He was in federal prison at Milan, Mich, for draft dodging until 1946, later made a play for recruits...
...failed their entrance exams for the old-style classical high schools got the new, "harmonized" course of studies. When her students did better on their physics exams after three years than the traditionally educated students did after six, government officials were impressed. Last spring Dr. Antonakaki's draft bill for school reform was put forward by the Education Minister with Premier Constantine Karamanlis' enthusiastic support. The changes involve curriculum, teacher training and the very rebuilding of the schools themselves. Last month, after the authoress herself had testified eleven days before committees, the bill was unanimously adopted...