Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grim field, the university is pioneering almost alone. Memorial has the nation's only hospital ward for children with cancer. With only 17 beds, the ward has long waiting lists. And each month some 290 treatments are given to young cancer patients in the hospital's crowded clinic. Memorial's doctors admit that children's cancers are among the most baffling (and most tragic) of all, and that "the mortality rate ... is extremely high...
...most eye-catching were three dresses which featured what one observer dubbed "the pneumonia neckline." One of them, a Jean Louis "suit" slashed down to the solar plexus, employed a large artificial rose in the open air bodice as the only ward against chills...
Something of Baudelaire is in every present-day neurotic whose longing for escape leads to lost weekends and the psychiatric ward. Baudelaire's own lost weekend lasted more than 20 years, but instead of cracking up, he never gave way finally to despair. In fact, he became its almost contemptuous familiar. The random reflections of his Intimate Journals reveal more than the great lyric poet of Fleurs du Mal (1857); they show the nature of the man who somehow dodged the inexorable shooting-down of the fugitive. The Intimate Journals, self-pitying and frequently obscure as they...
Meanwhile, the odds on a Dilworth victory, prohibitive at the outset, plummeted daily. The Republicans still appeared likely to pull through on the strength of their customarily overpowering majorities in 20 downtown and river wards-the "controlled" wards. But Dick Dilworth was giving them a scare. Said one unhappy ward heeler: "It's getting so they're afraid to take a bet at City Hall...
Hearst papers from Los Angeles to New York dutifully front-paged the "Chief's" letter, dutifully began to crank out "news" stories to comply. In Los Angeles, the Examiner sent reporters scurrying after statements from the mayor, lesser city officials and ward politicians (top frontpage headline: UNIVERSAL TRAINING ACTION DEMANDED BY L.A. LEADERS...