Word: inductance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over all those years, none of his actions has received the violent criticism that followed his October letter to local boards directing them to induct war and draft protestors. Hell broke loose all around him, with newspapers, educators, and civil libertarians across the country demanding his retirement. His directive was also strongly attacked on the Senate floor, but not one word was said there against him personally. Senior and junior congressmen alike are deferent to him in committee hearings...
Pennington said that he expects to end up in jail if "the case is decided in the near future, but the Army is so inconsistent anyway that it's hard to tell if they'll even carry through with trying to induct me on Monday...
Shatterly said that if the Army chose to induct him immediately, despite his refusal to sign the oath, he would probably opt for either going to prison or leaving the country...
Brown and Marston were ordered to appear for induction last week. They took tests and waited around the base most of the afternoon until the Army, without explanation, told them to go home. "It looks like they are ready to try to induct them now," Hector said...
Neither of the students, however, were told by their boards that their reclassifications were the direct result of their participation in the Oct. 16 demonstration or of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's directive to induct students for "illegal" protests against the draft...