Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called in his onetime chief speechwriter, Emmet Hughes of FORTUNE. Working together, they ripped apart Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' preliminary draft and put together a speech with punch. Ike himself was still tooling away at it a few hours before the TV cameras were...
...veiny fist as he warned that without U.S. military aid, free countries bordering on the Communist world would, under Communist pressures, "suffer a slow strangulation quite as fateful as sudden aggression." Going it alone without the mutual-security program, he said, the U.S. would need to step up its draft calls and spend billions more for arms...
Californians had a good case of Orwellian creeps. While no Big Brother was watching them, they had flatly been warned that almost everyone else was-or could be-listening. The state senate Judiciary Committee, hoping to draft 20th century laws to cope with ingenious invasions of privacy, set many a Californian on his ear with a report on a lengthy study of electronic eavesdropping and wiretapping, found that for all the benefits of electronic enterprise there have also been some disturbing developments. Among them...
Final course grades, like death, taxes, and the draft, are accepted as inescapable facts of life. Their utility is, however, sometimes questioned, with little result. Since the Time approaches rapidly, the issue of abolishing final grades deserves its annual airing...
...Friday he continued the project, after telling two of the faculty members about it. With his wife again watching, he finally got through the wall. "I managed to get my light and my head into the hole, and then I was not disturbed with the draft. I held my light forward, and the first thing which I saw was the pelvis of a man, and two parts of a leg. I knew that it was no place for these things...