Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night witch. Flowing flaxen tresses, bare feet, bare arms, and nearly bare breasts contained with difficulties by a tattered homespun give this young enchantress a special magic of her own. The prudish townswomen's resentment of the mysterious forest-girl drives them to nail up strangled birds to ward off her heathen charms...
...Barbara Ward declared last night that a perpetual Cold War situation could never lead "toward a saner world society" and urged that the Western nations take the initiative in offering specific plans to ease local tensions throughout the world...
...Miss Ward said that "rationally, we know that the world has to have minimal standards of guaranteed order. But," she added, "psychologically, these are the very guarantees which we are not ready to provide." In the absence of institutions which would enforce "the fact that we all have to live together," Miss Ward outlined four suggestions which the West should explore to help relax tensions...
...Miss Ward concluded that only after "a decade or so" of patient negotiations of this kind could general disarmament be approached meaningfully...
...output close to sales, had 640,000 cars on hand v. 870,000 last year at this time. Demand was strong enough by last week for producers to roll out a 1957 record of more than 148,000 new cars, up about 16% from the same week last year. Ward's Reports said Detroit production will ride at a near record for the first quarter largely because sales-happy Ford and Chrysler will push output 30% ahead of last year. On the other hand, motormakers are paring their stockpiles of steel, aluminum, glass, rubber and paint to normal minimums...