draft board

draft board

n. a tavern; a saloon. (Alludes to draft beer.) Let’s stop in the local draft board and toss a couple.
See also: board, draft
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • boogie-board
  • board with
  • board with (someone)
  • off board
  • the drawing board
  • big board
  • (as) flat as a board
  • flat as a board
  • flame war
  • flame
References in periodicals archive
When our mother and our sister said the words draft board their voices were low and their faces tensed.
The Courage of His Convictions
She always desired to help lift that population up, and while she didn't have a draft board directing her toward public service, she had her own calling of sorts.
Residency evolution: women join the ranks
Though Salmon knew that laws about draft resistance were severe and harsh, he nevertheless wrote his local draft board dearly stating his position: "I am legitimately entitled to an exemption: a wife and mother to support.
Ben Salmon: Catholic conscientious objector of the great war
The draft board also reviews detailed medical records on all Israelis with developmental disabilities, including the virtually 100% of children and adolescents diagnosed with ASDs who receive universal health care and other services through government agencies.
Older paternal age tied to autism in offspring
Reichenberg and his colleagues tapped into a database of Israeli young people, who are required to register with a draft board at age 17.
Problem paternity: older men seem more apt to have autistic kids
He can't wait for the draft board to send him to war, so that he can escape the dusty town and all of its dark memories.
Yarbrough, Steve. Prisoners of war, a novel
During 1944, I was having problems with the draft board. I wasn't averse to going into the armed forces, but I felt I was making a useful contribution to the war effort working at the RRL.
First person ... singular
Even before any congressional authorization, the Pentagon has begun a quiet campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions as well as similar positions on 11,070 appeals boards.
The return of the draft?
Its focus is on the Catholic Left, an informally-organized but highly influential group of resisters defined by their participation in the draft board raids made famous by the radical priests Daniel and Philip Berrigan.
Communities of resistance: women and the Catholic Left of the late 1960s
The advantage was that even if his student deferment was lifted, his married status might carry some weight with his draft board.
Dick's Vietnam hypocrisy
"The Selective Service System (SSS) wants to hear from men and women in the community who might be willing to serve as members of a local draft board," announced a notice posted on the Selective Service System's website on September 22.
Bringing back the draft?
With few exceptions--such as Walt, a devout Quaker who had been arrested for burning files "liberated" from a draft board office in southern California--most anti-war activists managed to avoid serving jail time themselves.
Prisoner's dilemma: how '60s anti-war activists let today's chicken hawks off the hook. A draft-resister's story
Charlie Fink, later Monsignor Fink, after graduating from college in 1968, went to his draft board to apply for a deferment for graduate school.
Voices from Vietnam: the tragedies and triumphs of Americans and Vietnamese--two peoples forever entwined by the legacy of war
When Tom Cornell informed his draft board that he lacked a draft card, he did so not out of a sense of civic duty or because he desired to follow the letter of the law.
'Peace on earth-peace in Vietnam': the Catholic Peace fellowship and antiwar witness, 1964-1976
Nine polite, well-dressed men and women walked into the Catonsville, Maryland, draft board office May 17, 1968, tussled briefly with staff members there (apologized profusely for doing so), and then emerged with piles of Selective Service records they quietly set afire using napalm they'd made from scratch.
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