Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McInnis expressed pleasure yesterday at the pitching of sophomores Pat Groper and John Semmelyer. These two men, along with another sophomore. John Arnold, loom as possible starters behind the "big three" of Bob Ward, John Donelan, and Rufe Webb...
...many of her girlhood friends, this kind of adulation and the unique achievements which have prompted it are added proof that the Roosevelts, man & wife, "betrayed their class" for the bauble of fame and the doubtful company of reporters, social workers and ward heelers. "Oh," says Mrs. Roosevelt with a smile-a tolerant, contented smile which recalls the ever-righteous crusades of the New Deal -"they think I am most peculiar." She adds: "I still see them-occasionally they - find it interesting to have a peculiarity to dinner...
...spur lagging sales, there was a new wave of price cuts. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward brought out their mid-spring catalogues with prices slashed up to 37% on hundreds of items. TV makers, whose sets have been selling for months at big under-the-counter discounts, recognized the fact by officially cutting prices by $10 to $90. Food prices continued to slip and farm prices as a whole were 8% below year-ago levels...
...Ward was quick to identify the pinpoints of weakness...
...These things," said Group Captain Ward, "are a matter of life & death for every one of us." The sense of urgency and peril convinced Tories and Socialists alike. In the tense debate that followed, not even the Bevanites, who oppose the scope of rearmament, questioned the urgent need to increase R.A.F. appropriations by 33%. The biggest air force estimates in Britain's peacetime history passed the House of Commons without a division...