Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...panel of 15 Yard freshmen will be drawn at random to decide whether it will nominate any of its numbers for duty on the CRR. The panel may nominate as many as five or none, and it will then be up to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life to send one of those...
...Massachusetts state law requires policeman and firefighters to live within a ten miles radius of the municipality they work in. Sgt. Harold Murphy, secretary of the Cambridge Police Association, said that it is not clear whether the radius is drawn from the city hall or the city limits...
Fluttering above a crowded football stadium in Corvallis, Ore., two male tussock moths, ignoring thousands of fans, make a beeline, so to speak, toward Gary Daterman and begin circling his head. Other moths are continually drawn to the steering wheel of Daterman's auto, his clothing and almost anything he touches. In fact, Daterman has become irresistible to moths during the mating season. Their infatuation with him is a hazard of his job: to devise cunning new forms of biological warfare against insects (TIME cover, July...
Black Beans. The opposition's showing was doubly impressive in view of the odds stacked against it. Unable to field candidates in a quarter of Brazil's municipalities, MDB was also stripped of a politically potent weapon-television. Under a strict electoral code drawn up by Geisel's Minister of Justice, Armando Falcào, candidates of both parties were forbidden to use TV or radio to speak to the voters. Meanwhile, "public service" broadcasts extolling the achievements of the revolution flooded the air waves. Weighing the opposition's impressive vote against these obstacles, political observers...
Vellucci, who spoke in the Freshman Union, said the University did not provide adequate housing for the thousands of students who were drawn to Harvard because of the increased government research funding after...