Word: draftless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation in May, it would be far worse in June. With rare exceptions, selective service boards had relied heavily upon teen-agers to fill their quotas. By exempting this class from the "mamma's boy" draft, the House (with unwilling Senate concurrence) had made it an almost draftless draft. The President's order that the boards resume drafting single men between 25 and 30 would produce only about 15,000 eligibles...
They live in and on wood. They build and bore for themselves airtight galleries which shut out light, diseases, most enemies. These galleries also keep their colonies humid and draftless, so that the soft-bodied insects do not dry up. This sheltered existence makes termites hard to fight. When soil-nesting termites travel to find wood, they construct long covered runways, which may reach even to the second floor of a house...
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