Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sound Cleaner. Fairbanks Ward Industries in Chicago told about its portable "Electro-Sonic" washing machine: a foot-high aluminum cylinder with an electrically activated heart. The heart's beatings create sound waves too high for the human ear to hear. The waves ripple through the wash water, driving soapy jets through the tightest-woven cloth. There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes. The machine, says Fairbanks Ward can wash its own weight (14 lbs.) in clothes at one time...
With Radden Pomes, Charlie Elliott, Harry Brownell, Johnuy Ranh, Mike Ward, and Bill Wister playing behind Difford and Watts, the varsity should meet Yale undefeated, and should finish that...
...came, smiled, registered for the nth time some old complaints, but agreed to join a church-government commission to study religious problems. Tito's propaganda organs claimed that the conference showed the government's "tolerance" of religion. But the Vatican saw it as a first step to ward nationalizing the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia...
...were now concentrating mostly on loyal Kikuyus, members of the sturdy tribe on which the Mau Mau prey for their recruits. Chief Ireigi Karamba was shot in both legs and one arm; two African policemen and a Kikuyu schoolteacher were hacked to pieces. Three more tribesmen walked into the ward of a government hospital at Kiambu, sought out their chief, Hinga Hinga, who was recovering from a Mau Mau ambush, and shot him dead in his bed. A white farmer, returning home to find his house a shambles, unearthed a crude Mau Mau note: "God must love you. We wanted...
...basic fault is that the National Assembly-comprising 627 deputies from a dozen parties-is entrusted with complete powers for governing France, but with almost none of the responsibility. All a premier can do when the Assembly votes against him is to quit. He has no veto power to ward off bad parliamentary acts. When a majority defeats him on a vote of confidence, he does not in practice have the powers to dissolve the Assembly, thus forcing the members to risk their own seats at an election. If he did have, the National Assembly might not be in such...