Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill on as a $100-a-month booking clerk at the old Fourth District police station, in the heart of Kansas City's Irish district. Two years later he was secretary to the director of police, an old Pendergast hack named Otto P. (Onie) Higgins. The ward bosses, the flatfeet and the job hunters who came to deal with Higgins called Bill Boyle "Onie's Diplomatic Doorman...
Right Place, Right Time. Fourth Ward arithmetic was hardly adequate to measure the opportunities for influence in postwar Washington. In Kansas City or Boston, a pol could do a friend a favor by fixing a traffic ticket, knocking down a tax assessment or awarding a municipal contract. But all these things were clear-cut acts, and relatively easy to rule legal or illegal. The complications of the federal operation opened up new frontiers...
...talks were under way. Since May 25, in what he called "the dimout war," the enemy had lost 188,000 men, he said. The summer battles had served to weaken the enemy, to improve the U.N.'s military posture, to school and season replacements, and above all, to ward off inertia...
American Forum of the Air (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). "What's Wrong with College Football?" Big Ten Commissioner "Tug" Wilson, Olympic Chairman Avery Brundage, Sportwriters Arch Ward (Chicago Tribune) and Marshall Smith (LIFE...
Unfortunately, four plays later, Price tossed to end Al Ward in the end zone. Ward, incidentally, booted all five extra points. On this play, he snaked through the pass defense and caught the ball unmolested...