Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle at Harvard climaxed with the April 1969 occupation of University Hall--but political activism at the University did not rise overnight. Tension had been growing for several years. In 1967, 71 students pledged to refuse the draft: when Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara came to speak at the Institute of Politics and refused to debate an anti-war spokesman, 800 students blocked his car and McNamara escaped through the University's underground tunnels...
...ARMY, so they say, when there was a draft and honorable wars and patriotism, one of a solider's duties was digging holes and then moving them. It must have been an activity that inspired a certain existential awareness of the limited significance of human endeavour- probably permanently imprinting the enlisted man's psyche in the process. Apparently, some of the individuals thus psychologically disfigured joined the MBTA following military service and conceived the idea of the Harvard Square extension of the Red Line...
Hart's lack of commitment has led him to overlook racial discrimination, as well as other social problems such as crime. It is why his staff has yet to draft an issues paper on the subject of domestic violence, and why he can blithely oppose gun control without feeling compelled to come up with an alternative...
...signed the first "big money" contract in the next year's inaugural reentry draft...
...asked me if I would support him?"join my team," as he put it. I told him I could not, at that time, become a part of his political household, but that with the exception of the draft issue, I would be supportive of his basic policy...