Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department, and her adviser knew nothing about her topic, Elaine told Heather that she had frantically begged Stuart, a junior and a born editor, to look over her thesis, and that, of course. Stuart had eaten up the attention. That night, in fact, he pored over Elaine's first draft for hours. When he took a break, it was to visit Heather and ask how her conclusion was coming...
Heather felt the minutes slip past her too fast to be exhilarated about finishing her rough draft. She was typing her own thesis onto the computer in Littauer's basement--doing that, she supposed, would allow her to type what would become a final draft and yet make revisions. The computer, moreover, automatically numbered footnotes and put them at the bottom of pages. Heather figured that since she had taken Nat Sci 110 as a freshman, she could breeze through the preliminaries of learning how to operate the text-editing language. And at five pages an hour, she figured...
Last December, while nearing the end of his final quarter, and no longer juggling academics with a heavy practice schedule, Kiki was ready to breeze through exams when he got the news that Dallas had traded him to Denver for future draft choices. Hours later he was on a plane to the mile-high city, and that night he played his first game in the pros against the Dallas Mavericks...
...afraid of losing status--spilled the beans, telling a congressional committee of his "lack of enthusiasm" about the possibility that Vice President Bush might receive the post instead of him. Furious about Haig's fierce infighting and evident lack of allegiance, Reagan appointed Bush hours later--prompting Haig to draft a letter of resignation that he later opted not to deliver...
Theirs would have been a hard act to follow, had anybody tried. As things turned out, nobody did. In the decade since, with the war ending and the draft no longer a threat, youngsters as a whole have not showed much inclination to give themselves to public causes even as voters, let alone as life crusaders. While they occasionally barge into the national consciousness during such rites as their pre-Easter pilgrimage to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., they seem to live mostly outside adult view. As a result, they have given the larger society no clear impression of what they...