Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year olds will be taken, unless the 180,000 figure is lowered. Some of the available 22-year-olds will join some reserve plan, putting additional pressure on the 22-year age group and cutting further into the 21-year-old group. If conditions continue in roughly the same manner, the draft might be calling on 20-year-olds...
While it is probably desirable for a young man of draft age to have a certain amount of freedom in choosing the manner in which he will fulfill his military obligation, there is no need for two organizations which offer almost indentical programs. After October sixth, there will be but one minor difference to distinguish the Army Reserve from the National Guard. The Army has succeeded in eliminating the Guard's so-called "draft-dodging" aspects and reduced the Guard to nothing more than the Army's image. The Army, unfortunately, may now be prone to gaze admiringly...
...Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth"-Exodus...
...question that comes to mind, however, is how can the NCAA allow one of its tournaments to be supported in such a thoroughly professional manner? The answer is simple. The NCAA could not possibly support this tournament in such grandiose fashion. Its officials welcome the guarantee that the event will be held each year in the same place at no charge to them, and they thoroughly appreciate the fact that each team enjoys itself so much at the Broadmoor that it is an added incentive for each team to make the playoffs...
...founder of the Broadmoor, Spec Penrose, typifies the somewhat extravagant manner that the resort exudes. Penrose came west from Philadelphia in 1891 and parlayed $150 dollars into a fortune through his participation in the Cripple Creek gold boom. Penrose then practically took over the city of Colorado Springs. In 1918, however, when the management of the Antlers Hotel asked him not to shoot off his gun in their bar, Spec angrily stalked out and started building his own hotel, where he could "shoot his gun off any time he pleased." The result was the Broadmoor...