Word: ve
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tenderhearted Congress, a solicitous Administration and local draft boards had provided deferment for a round 80% of the manpower pool-as veterans, as husbands and fathers, as farmers, as medical students, as scientists and apprentice scientists. "Sure, we don't have enough scientists," snapped Hershey. "We've never had enough-but we've never had enough fighting men either." As a beginning, Hershey wanted to draft veterans ("Those veterans still within the draft age couldn't have seen much service," he noted) and young married men without children...
...gotten a provocative response last year to a letter he had written to the President. State Senator Neal Bishop, knowing full well Harry Truman's dislike of John L. Lewis, had facetiously suggested putting up Mr. Lewis for Ambassador to Russia. The President's reply: "I've already appointed a good man to that post, and for your information I wouldn't appoint John L. Lewis dogcatcher...
...Bill Benton," and went hopping about the state like a man on an aerial pogo stick. A leather-chair type gladhander, he strove for the common touch. At country fairs, he handed out windshield stickers and buttons, told the crowd: "I will say for you ladies that I've had an experience such as you may understand. Men's trousers weren't made to be worn in helicopters-the cold air goes right up them...
...Boddle is only Fleischmann," the Disciple moaned. "They sure did Chipouras; I've taken a Ramin, a real Whelan...
...happened at a ten dance. He said, "Why did you come to Radcliffe?" She replied, "Because I've always wanted to go to a co-educational college...