Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salaam, capital of the neighboring British protectorate of Tanganyika. 19-year-old Brian Hay ward and a handful of African 'troopers under his command were found guilty of 1) .tying up Mau Mau suspects with thongs round their necks, 2) whipping the soles of their feet, 3) burning their eardrums with lighted cigarettes. Hay ward was fined ?100 ($280) and jailed for three months, but the English judge did not think that the soldiers should be judged too severely. "It is easy to work oneself up into a state of pious horror over these offenses," said he, "but they...
Dinceon, columnist of the Boston Globe, will be the intermediary. He has written. The Purple Shamrock, a biography of Curley's career, and Ward Eight, a novel about a ward boss who is defeated by a reform group. Rappaport, founder of the New Boston Committee, will discuss the reform movement as related to the political machine. The Forum's moderator will be Professor W. Covington Hardee of the Law School...
...replace Charlie Ufford, lost 15-14, 15-10, 9-15, 12-15, 15-10. Second man Alex Tomes, however, came through with a 15-14, 15-5, 18-17 victory over Hugh Foster. Bill Wister, in the third slot, lost to Goodhue Livingston in four games, and Captain John Ward, fourth, dropped three straight games to Jim Mugaseth. Fifth man John Raugh easily best Frank Flaschner in the last match...
...horsepower. There were also gestures toward safety. One driver had reconnoitered the whole course, splashed yellow paint on the road to signal the worst curves (unfortunately, other drivers had also painted the course in stretches and confused the system). Thousands of Mexican soldiers were assigned to patrol the route, ward off unwary roadsiders. But safety seldom wins a race. For five days, over eight separately timed laps, speed was the watchword...
...Chicago, Sears Roebuck reported that its October sales were 7.8% below last year's. Said Chairman Robert E. Wood: "This unseasonable weather has caused a perceptible slump in many fall and winter lines." Montgomery Ward's sales were down 15.5%. In New York, where a six-day, eye-burning "smaze"* added to the buying apathy, the fur business was down 20%; oil companies cut prices of heating oils by ½? a gallon to boost lagging sales. Anthracite men noted sadly that their sales so far this year were down by about...