Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President has asked not for a draft but only for a registration to see who might be available should the need arise. If all the young men who served in the military during World War II had sat back on their thumbs and said no, we wouldn't be having the present problems. There would not be any "rights" to cry about...
...National Football League's players are on strike. NBC plans to appease football enthusiasts everywhere, however, with its presentation of a Canadian Football League doubleheader featuring well-known personalities from the 11th round of the NFL college draft. And since the CFL doesn't play on Mondays (people are still wondering if the CFL really plays at all), rumor has it that ABC will instead feature back-to-back action-packed episodes of "Wild Kingdom" and "In Search...
...council ordered the city manager to draft a pooper-scooper ordinance for consideration at a future public hearing...
...next year through the fall of 1984, he is not really abandoning the residents of the Walden Puddle Commune, just fiddling with them. "It's time to give them $20 haircuts and move them out into the larger world of grownup concerns," says Trudeau. "The trip from draft beer and mixers to cocaine and herpes is a long one, and it's time they got a start on it." The cartoonist would like to put some distance between the reasons for his hiatus and those of his Pulitzer-prizewinning colleague Jeff MacNelly, 34, who gave up his editorial...
...Elis might miss the class of '82 even more on defense and special teams. Yale led the league in rushing defense last season holding its seven Ivy opponents to 657 yards on the ground. The loss of linebackers Jay Snyder and Jeff Rohrer (a second round draft pick of the Dallas Cowboys) particularly disturbs Cozza...