Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read with incredulity the suggestion that compensatory service for draft evaders should include work in domestic social services. It seems incomprehensible that the draft evaders, a majority of whom are part of or were influenced by the radical and New Left, should be placed in positions where they could propagate their political philosophies...
...about 65 miles north of Milwaukee. But there was an immediate protest that the ad was actually a volley of crew-cut propaganda. It did seem to play on any good burgher's fear of the standard counterculture sins: drugs and VD, the death of the work ethic, draft dodging, and maybe some glint of Charles Manson...
...born into one political contract or another, whose terms, though they sit very lightly at first, in the form of the draft, or taxes, eventually begin to make very real demands on you. The general social contract--living with other people, driving cars on highways--all this is difficult, it's painful. It's a kind of agony really--the agony vents itself in ulcers internally, rage externally...
...cannot speak for all Canadians, but most of my friends are fervently hoping and indeed praying that the U.S. will take back the draft dodgers, deserters, etc. In Canada, we have acquired a motley crew of Maoists, Trotskyites, Communists, socialists, anarchists, college-building burners and what have you. (Correction-what had you.) Please bring them home. Please...
...turned out. The implication was that they were unpatriotic in refusing to exercise the franchise. On Loeb's order ("A moral judgment," he says), the Union Leader carried no account of last year's Ali-Frazier championship fight; he considers Ali an un-American draft dodger...