Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Those two teams certainly packed a lot of punch and so did most of the rooters. (That's rather good, don't you think?) I'm so dumb about football--my escort (oh, no, I didn't go alone) nearly killed me when I asked him if those were draft numbers the players were wearing on their backs...
...Orange, N. J., a twelve-year-old boy scanned a list of draft numbers in the city hall. "Looking for your dad's number, sonny?" beamed the mayor. "Naw!" said the small fry, "my teacher's. I sure hope he goes...
They fought with elemental fierceness. The lair was threatened. They captured heights by making draft animals of themselves. Even the women dragged cannon behind them. In charges the hairy evzones came screaming, their white skirts flapping like osprey wings. There was no thought -as there often was among the Italians -for personal safety. One young Greek aviator, out of ammunition, flew his plane smack into an Italian plane...
...topic upon which we can all unite at the present time is national defense," Colonel Dana T. Gallup acting Judge Advocate of Massachusetts, told a limited audience. "Resting upon the democratic principle that all must register and that men are chosen for service by their civilian neighbors, the draft answers the need for defense in a fair and efficient way," he said...
...with its horses, is waking up. The officer-instructors are handling out "unsatisfactory" grades right and left, and their exams are no longer the snap quizzes of the good old days. Only three cuts per year are allowed before the unwary slugabed finds himself outside the Army with the draft hot on his neck. Written work outside of class is demanded for the first time, and the neophyte warriors are actually learning the theory of firing the Field Artillery's guns and of giving commands...