Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even in this scene, the country was in ferment. The "bloodless revolution" was in full swing. Just two years ago, the Diet passed Japan's new constitution. MacArthur himself had written the first draft in his clear, old-fashioned hand. It reduced the Emperor from godhead to symbol, abolished the feudal aristocracy, gave the Diet genuine power to make laws, guaranteed popular liberties, decreed sex equality, renounced the nation's right to make war, even for self-defense. It contained such alien concepts as "public servants" (ancient custom made bureaucrats responsible only to the Throne) and "pursuit...
...Parker first ordered a cleanup: shave, haircut, bath. Physically, Paul was in pretty good shape, except for weakness of the leg muscles and bad teeth. He had once weighed 200 pounds and was down to 170. His answers were intelligent: when asked whether he had registered for the 1940 draft, he said he would not talk until he had seen a lawyer...
...changed the bill," Sullivan said last night, "because it was unlikely that it would be passed in its original form. However, the original draft of H-442 served a valuable purpose in that it let trustees of schools and colleges in the Commonwealth know that the Legislature was prepared to take drastic action against communist infiltration into our education institutions...
...License Commissioners, according to the present draft of the ordinance, would be required to refuse permits in localities where off-street parking space is available at reasonable rates within reasonable proximity...
...that Socialism is like a bicycle;-if it stops, it topples. Therefore they have long advocated a fast, nonstop nationalization of British industries. Last week it was apparent that the Bevan group had given some ground to the go-slow faction headed by Herbert Morrison. Labor issued the first draft of the platform on which it hopes to be re-elected next year, and the gist was that the Socialist bicycle would move forward at a greatly reduced rate of speed...