Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also eliminated in the quarter-finals was Captain Mike Ward, number four. He lost to Fred Gardner, the other member of Yale's top three...
Student nurses, with dark capes billowing behind their white uniforms, pranced into a back ward at Central Oklahoma State Hospital at Norman one day last week. Their exaggerated steps kept time with the firm beat of The Stars and Stripes Forever, played fortissimo over the public-address system. In their hands, accenting the rhythm still more, they held tambourines, clappers, castanets, maracas, and even bongo drums. Other nurses, also armed with noisemakers, stood around among the patients...
...example, was carefully kept from meeting any other. Today, Founder Stratemeyers daughters run the corporation, claim that so far the new Tom Swift Jr. series has been entrusted to a single Appleton. He has already turned out three. With thousands of new sales outlets, including Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, young Tom stands a chance of doing as well as his great...
...Thoracic Clinic's first patient for a heart-valve operation was one of its brightest alumnae: Mrs. Claire Ward, 29, of Newark. In the spring of 1948, Mrs. Ward was bedridden for months with heart failure; she could not even walk unaided to the next room. Today she holds an office job and does her own housework as well. Pressed as to whether she had any complaints, Mrs. Ward admitted that she feels a bit short of breath after climbing three flights of stairs...
...great and utterly unexpected fame, coming at the close of such a long, useful life, pleases her mainly for the personal contacts it brings her, and bothers her only because it brings too many. A "Do Not Disturb" sign from a hotel room hangs outside her front door to ward off the thousands of tourists who besiege her sunny old age. Yet those who get past that printed plea find that Grandma's main interest, now as ever, is people. Recently a visitor asked the radiant little old lady of what she was proudest after her 93 years...