Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...although the editors still shudder at the quality of the first-draft copy that arrives at their desks during a four-day heat wave, TIME is organized to achieve at least a stand-off against the weather. Being city dwellers, our harbinger of the seasons is not the robin nor any of the age-old signs; it is the medical department. When one of our researchers turned up there early last month, sunburned, peppered with mosquito bites, black & blue from having fallen into a brook, nursing a finger blistered from picking daisies, we could be sure that summer...
...spokesman for Cambridge Selective Service Board 47, the "Harvard" draft board, said last night that no instructions had been received there regarding a new draft policy, announced Wednesday, that would provide for reclassification of all 1-C veterans who have not served six months on active duty, exclusive of time served in college under a military program, since September...
...seemed to be oozing vast gobs of grey sweat." He returned with tight-lipped truculence to the Soviet position of blocking the peace. First, he insisted on excluding China from the inviting powers. Byrnes called this "a gratuitous insult" to China, but finally agreed to accept a draft of the invitation form previously proposed by the Russians themselves. Molotov then said that he could not now accept even his own draft. Byrnes began to get mad. He got madder when Molotov explained that he would hold up any invitation until the Big Four agreed to rules of procedure binding...
...Heard, along with the House, that Senate-House conferees had agreed on a compromise bill excusing 18-year-olds from the draft...
Hearst newspapers know that the way to get the best pickings of crashes, crimes and calamities is to get there first. A year ago, Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner decided to draft every Angeleno as a news tipster. For the best "outside" news tip sent in each week, the Examiner offered...