Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past few years, 130 groups have organized hospice programs, and about 20 institutions recognized by the newly formed National Hospice Organization (N.H.O.) are operating in the U.S. Unlike the way stations of the past, the present-day hospices provide more than attentive, sympathetic care for the dying. They do pioneer work in such neglected medical areas as the easing of pain and other symptoms of terminal illness and deal in psychological counseling for both patients and their families...
Henry Beetle Hough, L.H.D., publisher and journalist. Country editor, essayist, and pioneer conservationist, yours has been a lifetime of striving to preserve the best in man and nature...
...pioneer of educational broadcasting and television's Boston Channel 2, WGBH, Lowell was also long-time president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
Charles Blair MacDonald, one of the pioneer American golf course architects, who designed the Yale 18 back in the '20s, was a man who believed in making a golfer sweat to earn his par. Yesterday, pars were few and far between...
...WOMB OF ONE'S OWN is Harvard's first sampling of what its creators call "women's theater," i.e. works written, produced, and directed by women about women. As the pioneer of its genre in Harvard theater, the play poses important questions about the educational value of women's theater--and of political art in general. Should women's art simply nurture and celebrate a separate female culture, or must we demand of political art a statement about a specific issue...