Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Booth Tarkington's day was obviously perilous enough, but there was one problem that no Tarkington hero ever had to face: Should he make plans for his military service, or should he simply wait a year and then register for the draft? Last week, as commencement drew near at schools and colleges across the U.S., it was, for thousands of boys, time for the big decision...
...Student draft deferment certificates for class standing registrations are available in the PBH draft office and should be filed with the Registrar before the end of the school year...
...order to be safely beyond the draft call a freshman must rank in the upper half of his class, a sophomore in the upper two-thirds, a junior is the top three-fourths, and a senior in the top quarter of his class...
...handsome, rambling redwood home in the hills near Los Altos, Calif, he rarely works beyond noon, spends afternoons tending his orchards. He outlines each article in full, then dictates a rough draft into a recording machine, which his secretary transcribes. Then Taylor does as many as eight new drafts on his portable before he considers his article finished...
...Emperor Augustus, a dour Cromwellian sort, who found Ovid's lively spirit immoral and subversive. In A.D. 8, he banished the poet to lifelong exile in a Black Sea village, but not before Ovid had capped his fame with a masterpiece which never saw more than first-draft form, the Metamorphoses, or the Stories of Changing Forms, a compendium of the ancient world's mythology...