Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate, most of the Crimson ward-robe is due for some radical rearrangement in a year of profound and expensive change in male apparel. Of the traditional clothing we can only say that if all the flannel suits over sold in Harvard Square were laid and to end--we wouldn't be surprised...
...reader follows Jean into a dissecting room, where he cuts up cadavers; a slum, where he meets a leper; a hovel, where he hears a baby "leave the mother's belly with a moist squelching sound"; a ward, where he observes a woman choke to death of slow asphyxia, and hears from the puffed lips of a badly burned man "the most piercing shrieks that suffering can ever have brought forth"; an operating room, where he watches a leg being amputated at the thigh as a little surgical saw bites splinters off the bone and the limb breaks away...
Michael J. Ward and present School Committee members Mary K. Fitzgerald and William F. Carr held lead positions. Behind them were Louis F. Musco and Joseph...
...executive secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society, Dwight S. Strong, declared that "Banned in Boston" is almost an obsolete term...
Strong stated that in the last five years only one book has been removed from sale by due process of law and that the Watch and Ward Society has taken but one action to exercise censorship--to prevent the sale of pictures of nude men and women on the backs of playing cards...