Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Trieste this week the Associated Press reported that a Yugoslav priest, Father Miro Bulesich, was beheaded when he tried to ward off a knife-brandishing mob that attacked and seriously wounded Msgr. Giacomo Ukmar, a Vatican prelate, after a ceremony at a church in Lanische, Venezia Giulia. Meanwhile, authorities found the mutilated body of a third Roman Catholic priest, bearing the "marks of horrible torture...
...reputation of being the most conservative--some would say reactionary--of veteran organizations. While it has performed many charitable and civic services, it has never seen accused of putting the interests of the nation before those of the veteran. At every level of government from Washington to the ward, it is a vociferous and effective pressure group...
JAMES R. SAULS JR. Jacksonville Ward, Florida Stake Jacksonville...
Died. Joseph ("Big Joe") Saltis, 62, onetime Chicago beer baron in competition with Al Capone, a way of life that earned him barrels of freely-spent money and two bullets in the neck; of a liver ailment; in the charity ward of a Chicago hospital...
With alarm, the Daily Mail's Correspondent G. Ward Price reported that the horrid word "spiv" was "on every lip." He thought that it had something to do with people observed carrying large sums of cash, presumably to dodge taxes. A gentleman sardonically signing himself Sam Johnson asked in the Daily Telegraph: "Is 'spiv' . . . an abbreviation; if so, of what? Is it an importation; if so, from whence? Or is it perchance compounded from initials-'Social Parasites in Vehicles' . . . or the 'Society for the Promotion of Illegal Ventures...