Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, consider a college junior whose birthday is September 10. If September 10 is the last birthday drawn, men born on that date and classified II-A in 1970 would be safe from the draft, barring a huge...
...wait until late in 1970 and try to estimate how many men under his local draft board have higher numbers and how many might be called. If it looked safe, he could drop out of school, wait to not be drafted, and go on with whatever he wanted to do: His liability would expire the first...
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...heyday in Wall Street and Hollywood, Kennedy was an aggressive, though never reckless in-and-out operator. By about 1949, however, he had decided against further risk-taking. Jack was looking beyond his safe seat in Congress, and so was his father. Joe Kennedy told his advisers to keep his money away from "troubled places"-he had moved out of the politically troublesome liquor business in 1946-and he turned down deals that he formerly would have snapped...
...with what Bielby calls the "silent acceptance" of the state. When their service was being organized, a committee met quietly with state officials and agreed to the ground rules. Although a minister who suggested abortion could possibly be accused of criminal conspiracy, he can presume that he is relatively safe from prosecution unless a complaint is lodged against him by one of the women he has counseled. Bielby makes certain that ministers agree to a stringent code that makes the final decision the woman's rather than the minister's. "Our real hope," says Bielby, "is that...