0 the system in the US in which men aged 18-26 must put their names on an official list so that they can be called to join the army if there is a war
The new service is a cheap, selective service, not an expensive one, at half the rate of the coupon traffic.
The idea of selective service is abhorrent; these are two dirty words not to be used.
It is a specialised form of selective service, as he himself called it, forced upon us by the situation in which we now find ourselves.
What did he mean by suggesting that we had under-the-counter selective service?
We feel that this is the thin end of the wedge for selective service.
It is nonsense to suggest that this is the thin end of the wedge of selective service or some means of reducing the call-up.
I should like to know exactly what could be gained from selective service and what the requirements would be.
That situation will not be solved by specious ideas about selective service.