Sentence examples for a draft office from inspiring English sources

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A man under 29 whose passport does not reflect that he has either carried out or been released from his military service may be detained by any policeman and delivered to a draft office to be shipped off.

They were overpowered by police when they left the park to raid a draft office.

Hearing that the presence of Massachusetts troops might spark further violence on the part of rioters, Edwards requested permission to place his regiment prominently as guards at a draft office, intending to demonstrate the bravery of his men in the face of threats.

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And at least some of it appears to be; anyone who has read Pat Conroy's 1995 best seller "Beach Music" will remember the student radicals who tried to destroy a draft board office, only to discover at trial that one of their leaders (and friends) was a government agent.

But hundreds of white working men mobbed the draft office at Third Avenue and 47th Street and destroyed the office.

It was the summer after his graduation from the New York Military Academy, and Mr. Trump recalled filling out his papers with his father, Fred Trump, at the local draft office on Jamaica Avenue in Queens.

There he studied traditional painting and calligraphy, as well as European styles, and worked briefly in an architectural drafting office and with a motion picture company.

THE CAMDEN 28 A documentary by Anthony Giacchino, about a group of activists who broke into a draft-board office during the Vietnam War.

Then chaos comes through the door, in the person of Lennie Dale (Miley Cyrus), a young woman who is a lifelong friend of the family (she's descended from the people who raised the orphaned Kay), and who is a wanted fugitive after bombing a draft-board office and shooting her way out of prison.

Directed by Anthony Giacchino, the film is specifically about a Camden, N.J., antiwar group's 1971 plot to break into a draft-board office and destroy government records, and the long trial that ensued when the protesters were caught by the F.B.I.

(Matt Zoller Seitz) 'THE CAMDEN 28' (No rating, 83 minutes) Concise, inventive and unabashedly partisan, this documentary concerns a Camden, N.J., antiwar group's 1971 plot to break into a draft-board office and destroy government records, and the long trial that ensued when the protesters were caught by the F.B.I.

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