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...calling up another 1,200,000 within the next nine months. Director of Selective Service Lewis Hershey urged that the term of service be increased from 21 months to 30, that World War II veterans under 26 be included in the draft, that rules be changed in order to rope in more men claiming exemptions and men previously judged to be unfit. This was not a temporary program, Hershey said, but a program for an "indefinite" period, perhaps for "a generation...
...rented to the Forest Service a stallion known as Man of War Jr. One night on the trail, Man of War Jr. felt an urge. He chewed through his tether and ran off to find a mate. It was his last run, for he got tangled in the rope trailing from his neck and died of strangulation. Farmer Madison billed the Forest Service...
...cold, driving rain hampered the practice, but Lamar sent the large squad through intensive drills on the Crowther apparatus and over the rope maze...
...versifying . . ." Voltaire once said, "is like dancing in fetters on a rope." For writers of light verse, the trick is to do the dance on a string. Most of them manage a light fantastic stanza or two, but soon fall flat on their anapests...
...using Alpinists' gear-hook, rope and nylon sling-they reached the top safely, but cracked off a piece of the spire on the way down. The crash brought a policeman. Oxford's long-suffering town fathers found the two guilty of "public mischief," but postponed sentence, "to see what [the students] will do in the way of compensation...