Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousands have come out from behind the veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small voice from the past. Lawyer Osman Nuri Lermioglu, a Democratic Deputy from Trabzon on the Black Sea, presented Parliament with a draft bill that would allow a Turk legally to have two wives, but only if the first wife were ill or sterile. To prove that he was no Terrible Turk with a passion for bringing back the good old days of male supremacy. Deputy Lermioglu hastily explained that he had personally...
...Methodist bishops also pointed out that the emergency under which the about-to-expire Selective Service Act was made law in 1940 "has long since ceased to exist," and recommended "a careful re-study before taking any measures to enact a universal draft law, which seems to be unnecessary as well as ineffective...
Percy Lawrence, a South London plumber, was a 50-a-day chain smoker. He had worked up to this forced-draft rate in the Royal Navy during World War II, and never tapered off. As Lawrence lost weight and complained of always being tired, Dr. Paul Frederick Lister advised him to cut down. Still he went right on smoking. Last August Dr. Lister did a bronchoscopy, found cancer of the lung originating in a bronchus (one of the main branches of the windpipe). In little more than two months the cancer killed Lawrence, 51, husband and father...
Cleveland's Coach Paul Brown grabbed Jimmy in the draft, built a new ground offense around Brown. Last year Jimmy led the league in ground-gaining, was runaway choice for rookie of the year. This year, with Rookie Speedster Bobby Mitchell operating at halfback to keep the defense spread to cover an outside threat, Cleveland has the best ground game the pro league has seen in years...
Leventhal charged that the hand-bill falsely imputed communist sympathizing and draft-dodging to Saltonstall. He called the handbill and the HERC's action "cheap and irresponsible...