Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record is sustained by the soul-shaking rigors of Marine training that turns a shave-headed boot into a dedicated fighting man whose faith is in his rifle and whose religion is his corps. And it is nourished by the legendary heroes of the Marines' past: Commandant William Ward Burrows, who in 1800 ordered one Marine shavetail to redress an insult from a naval officer with his pistol; Brigadier General (now Congressman) James P. S. Devereux, the defender of Wake Island; General Thomas Holcomb, the father of the modern corps. The battle cry of a leathery Marine sergeant...
...Boston Women's Rescue League warned that 30% of all fallen women had at some time been bicycle riders. After a "long night in armor," a 1910 gym picture shows a bevy of union-suited beauties straining at pushups, pulleys and punching bags. In another 1910 photograph, Julia Ward Howe, at the age of 91, is being wheeled to a suffrage drive to recite her Battle Hymn of the Republic. Behind her stands Socialite Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, who once bucked up a despairing suffragette with some super-feminism: "Call on God, my dear, She will help...
...vests and Chesterfield coats. They were the same pols that always show up for the St. Patrick's Day parade or the opening day at Lincoln Downs, but this time they were waiting for the Democratic nominee for president. They smoked their cigars just the same and they talked ward politics as usual, and only when the sound of the train became too loud did they straighten their coat collars and snuff out their cigars...
...wasn't quite enough. One night Tommy D'Alesandro strolled into the pine-paneled meeting room of Jack Pollack's Trenton Democratic Club in northwest Baltimore. It was just an ordinary night, and only Pollack and about 40 of his lieutenants and ward captains were present. Pollack apologized for the turnout, said that if only Tommy had just let him know, he would have had 200 there. But Tommy just wanted to talk to the boys on hand-especially Jack Pollack...
...Batterymarch office was crowded with young secretaries briskly typing. In the back of the room ward leaders sat at their desks, giving earnest instructions to their lieutenants. Robert Kennedy's ofice was in a far corner, and his secretary told me to wait. After a half an hour, she called my name. "I hope," said Kennedy, after I introduced myself, "that you are going to support my brother." "We may," I lied, "but some Republicans on the paper are worried that he's a little too liberal. I've been trying to find that Independents for Kennedy group...