Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Than the Machines. In his attempt to win a fourth term, Tucker was done in by St. Louis' Democratic ward leaders, who have never liked him. A onetime Washington University engineering professor, Tucker made a name for himself in the 1930s when, as his city's first smoke commissioner, he was instrumental in getting through a strong anti-smoke ordinance that went a long way toward cleaning out St. Louis' polluted air. Reform-minded business leaders in 1953 nominated Tucker as an independent Democratic candidate for mayor, and Tucker defeated the Democratic machine candidate...
...this year's party primary the ward heelers got their revenge, joined forces behind Cervantes, who gained the endorsement of 20 of the city's 28 ward organizations. However, there was more to it than machine politics. After twelve years in office, Tucker, now 68, had begun showing signs of wear (in 1961 his right lung was removed because of a tumor...
...inland, the Andean foothills rise to 13,000-ft. plateaus, inhabited by 53% of Peru's 11 million people, virtually all of them Indians. Some labor in the mines for $2 a day; others work the steeply terraced hillsides, chewing gummy wads of coca, a leafy narcotic, to ward off hunger and cold. In the village of Hualcan, 200 miles northwest of Lima, only eight of 900 people can even communicate in Spanish; the rest speak Quechua, the language of their Inca ancestors. After a visit to Hualcan, a U.S. anthropologist reported that the Indians at first thought...
...Toole, whose best lines are in his clean-cut profile and whose mannerisms parody his flashy style in Lawrence of Arabia and Becket. Each time his manhood is tested, O'Toole's eyes fill with tears and a hand drifts to his throat as if to ward off a fainting spell. Everything he does looks intensely talented. But it hardly ever looks like Lord...
Nonetheless, as the convocation made clear, Pacem in Terris remains-in the words of Robert Hutchins-"one of the most profound and significant documents of our age." What it offers to men facing contemporary risks and realities, said Economist Barbara Ward, is "a glimpse of how the world might look under the governance of love...