Word: sure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reduce draft vulnerability from seven years to one. Accordingly, young men would normally become eligible at 19. By the time they reached 20, they could be reasonably sure of being draft-free-unless there were a major emergency...
...BELL RANG, like a high school hall bell, and everyone got up and slowly walked away somewhere. I was hungry so I figured it was a bell for supper but I wasn't sure. So I missed supper. I was all alone on the long hall of O-2, except for the synthetic voice coming from...
...before I get my doughnut they'll realize where I'm from and put me in a straight jacket and with a blaze of lights and sirens whisk me back to O-2. But miraculously they didn't even speak to me, though I was sure that they and everyone else in the place was staring at me when I wasn't looking: I felt like a fugitive, so tremendously different and apart from everyone else. With great difficulty I managed to get myself together enough to order a jelly dough-nut, paid, and quickly left. I walked back...
...speech-which he delivered extemporaneously-Wald. discussed the causes of student unrest. "I think I know what is bothering the students." he said. "I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future...
Everyone always said we had a cabal of six people making decisions. It was true that I had never made a decision. I was also sure, however, that I had never wanted to. Someone had to make decisions and six seemed as good a number...