Word: drafted
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...curtailment of Callahan's athletic career was particularly rough for someone who had been an Honorable Mention All-Ivy the year before and who had been contacted last summer by a number of professional scouts about a career in the NFL. A prospectus of the 1991 NFL draft pinned Callahan as the 36th-best offensive tackle in the country-- even with the injury...
...early and mid-1960s, when men on campus were obsessed with thoughts of the draft and 'Cliffies were awakening to the first moments of the women's movement, soon gave way to a more tumultuous era at the University in the later part of the decade, Bok said...
...scribbled notes by Nicholas Gilman, a New Hampshire delegate to the Constitutional Convention -- were discovered four years ago. Their existence was made public last week after scholars authenticated them. They are expected to shed new light on the deliberations of 1787 since less than half of the original 60 draft copies are still around...
...said that journalism is a first rough draft of history. If so, then some news events are of such lasting significance that they deserve a second draft. Last January, as allied bombers launched a massive airborne offensive against Iraq, it became clear to Joanne Pello, a vice president of the Time Inc. Book Co., that the stream of words and images appearing in TIME's pages were the grist of a good book. Pello discussed the possibility with her colleagues and then approached us. "We realized that this was a subject in which TIME had particular photographic and editorial expertise...
...different time frame, and the chapters are longer than a TIME article, but the essential spirit of the thing is the same: the attitude of reasonably objective observers describing what we have seen or learned." And, we might add, enjoying the luxury of sufficient time to write a second draft...