Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some people have a knack for blurting out the wrong words at the wrong time. Will Stockdale, the hero of No Time for Sergeants, is a genius at this artless art. His naive, well-meant blunders form the best argument yet discovered against continuing the draft, or at least the best remedy for accepting it. The resulting comedy, which Ira Levin adapted from Mac Hyman's best-selling novel, shows how a Georgia farm boy can send the U.S. Air Force into a tailspin. Maurice Evans has produced this new play almost as a sequel to the Teahouse...
...member of the original Faculty sub-committee which prepared the draft of that proposal, I naturally hoped that the Army would adopt it in toto. For the reasons which I have discussed above, however, I am extremely pleased with the substantial progress which we have made. . . . T. N. Dupuy, Colonel Artillery
...editor of Zurich's solemn Swiss Review of World Affairs, returning from a trip to the U.S., assured his readers last week that the U.S. has just enjoyed "the happiest summer since 1928." Britain alone in Western Europe has a two-year draft; the rest have anywhere from twelve to 21 months...
From all sides came suggestions that the armed services should be "restrained" first, and much optimism about more punch for the pound (like Washington's more bang for the buck"). Bevanite joined Tory in cries for an immediate reduction in the two-year draft.-The press was full of features about wasteful and frivolous practices in the armed services (the R.A.F. colonel who had his batmen dress up in Louis XIV servant rig for a costume ball...
...obvious to this handsome little devil in fact, that he is made of "finer clay," and he sets out to acquire a gleaming finish in the heat of events. As soon as he has choused his draft board with a neatly feigned epileptic fit, he lights out for Paris, where he hires out as elevator operator in a fashionable hotel. At about this time, his fingers stick to a lady's jewel case, and soon they are stroking the lady herself with such skill that she begs him to steal the rest of her valuables too. He obliges...