Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yourself is just a way of thinking things over, of processing ideas through articulation, a sort of audible shadowboxing. The deaf woman turns her brain waves into fast-forward hand dancing. Same thing." As a writer, I talk to myself in order to try out ideas--a rough draft recited to the pigeons--before writing them down. A playwright must speak the lines aloud. What's crazy about that...
...spring of 1992 Turlais was given two opportunities of a lifetime--an acceptance to Harvard and a selection by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 10th round of the draft to play baseball for a living...
...boomer, Bill Clinton wanted to have it both ways. He tried to be hip and square at the same time, and in a way he succeeded. At Oxford he protested against the Vietnam War (cool) and wrote a letter thanking a ROTC commander for helping him to avoid the draft and "maintain my political viability" (square). He's a President who wears blue jeans and cowboy boots (and looks good in them), revels in intricate discussions of domestic policy and may have an extracurricular love life...
...said the text of the letter was composed by a core group of five tutors. After sending a draft of the letter by e-mail to larger pool of tutors, he said the initial group worked to incorporate a series of suggestions proposed by the larger group into the final draft...
...feeling the mouse's bite; it has the potential to upset operations at the Air Force Academy and cleanup at the Rocky Flats former nuclear-weapons site. With the certainty of greater disruption if the animal wins federal protection, Colorado officials have organized a 200-member coalition to draft the state's own protection plan, which may include finding the mice and relocating some of them into sanctuaries. "It's in the interest of both mouse and man to avoid drastic measures," says Congressman David Skaggs of Boulder, a Democrat who secured a $400,000 appropriation to fund the project...