Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garbage collector he had come to know the city's exclusive southeast side and its well-to-do homes. He eased into the driveway of a handsome French provincial house on South 24th Street, pulled into the garage, forced his way into the home of C. Lauer Ward, president of the Capital Steel Co. Starkweather prodded Mrs. Clara Ward, 46, and Housekeeper Lillian Fend, 51, to the second floor, bound and gagged them, then stabbed them to death. About 5:30, after a conference with Nebraska's Governor Victor Anderson at the Capitol a few blocks away, Lauer...
...Negro ward of Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, a grizzled man sat up in bed, waiting to cry. If only he could weep, he might see again. David Dougherty, 62, had lost his sight almost completely as the aftermath of a rare disease,* which destroys the lacrimal glands producing the watery fluid that lubricates the eyeballs. For two days Dougherty sat in bed with increasing impatience. The doctor had told him he could expect to see again soon after the operation. Still no tears came. Then one noon Dougherty heard a lunch cart rattling down the corridor...
...number one spot. Next in the lineup are Ralph West, Mike Berlzheimer, PeteSmith, Ranny Hobbs, and Bill Lewis. The fifth position will be filled by Neil Slater-Booth, who formerly played English squash. Brazil's National Junior Tennis Champion, Jeorge Lamann, will play sixth. Bob Schwartzman, Hal Louchheim, Tony Ward, Tosi Hirai, and John Field complete the team
...hours one night at Salt Lake County General Hospital, a University of Utah medical student noticed that the floor tiles seemed to be pulsating and growing alternately lighter and darker. A colleague saw the head of a grey-haired woman sticking out of the doorway of an all-male ward. A third saw smoke coming from the linoleum floor, and as he watched, it turned into a fine spray of water. Another saw a roll of luminous chicken wire on the floor, but it disappeared as he walked through it. Several heard voices from afar...
Although they were in a psychiatric ward, there was nothing wrong with the students except that they had gone without sleep for as long as 72 hours. They were volunteer subjects in a study (one of several under way in various medical centers) to assess the effects of sleep loss on a man's mind and body...