Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Levitt has had lengthy psychiatric treatment. Family friends portray him as a disturbed young man who flunked out of one university and dropped out of another, was rejected by the draft on medical grounds, and is capable of having made up the whole kidnaping story...
...ludicrous on-field play, he notes, major league baseball adopted a stern patriotic image. Players took part of their pay in war bonds, teams staged charity games and donated equipment to the Army. Privately, baseball officials tried to protect their pocketbooks and get their stars deferred from the draft...
...acquired only 60,000 members by 1960. Its period of large growth came in the late '60s and early '70s, when civil rights and liberties became a popular cause and thousands of young people joined to help support Freedom Riders in the South and Viet Nam draft resisters. Says Neier: "We rode the crest of public concern." Now Neier and others feel that "the country is less concerned with individual rights. There is no dominant political issue, no sexy come-on. We're back to bedrock free-speech problems...
...case, local districts looked eagerly toward Sacramento as they awaited word on just how hard the tax revolt would hit them. As Brown moved to draft a master plan, some of his aides thought they saw in his eyes the same sort of glint that was there in the days when he beat Jimmy Carter in five straight 1976 primaries. Said one Brown aide: "I haven't seen the adrenaline flowing like this since the early days of his political career...
...seclusion of the Catoctin mountains, he mulled over their opinions, then wrote out his first draft. At a White House lunch on Tuesday, the day before the Annapolis graduation, there was speculation among some of his advisers on how the address would be interpreted in the press. One suggested a pool on the subject, which led another to propose, jokingly, that the official getting the most credit should then resign. In the end, the address went through a mere three drafts compared with six or seven versions for previous important speeches Carter has made...