Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When George Murphy speaks, the easy Irish charm of an old-style city ward heeler pours forth. His blue eyes, set off by pink cheeks and carefully coifed, grey-streaked hair, throw a friendly glint. At the slightest sound of applause, Murphy is transported happily back to the heyday, 25 years ago, when he song-and-danced his way across the nation's cinema screens. Then the ham in him surfaces, and he talks and talks and talks until his aides tug at him and tell him it is time to quit...
...same bugs have already been worked out of smaller air-cushion vehicles, such as the 40-ft. British-made Hovercraft that Bell was demonstrating last week for oil company executives in Galveston Bay. Wearing a rubber skirt around its waist to prevent leakage of the air cushion and to ward off obstacles, this vehicle even cleared a 4½-ft. fence to show off its agility. In what may be the first military use of an air-cushion vehicle, the British plan to send a pair of armed Hovercraft to Borneo late this month for use against Indonesian terrorists...
...vote-thief - these are some of the terms we hear booted about by candidates for President of the greatest country in the world." But there is still time, he said, "to restore some degree of dignity and decency." The Essentials. So far neither candidate has shown much inclination to ward that end, and there are other facts working against it. Each man by now has attracted a considerable following that desperately wants him to win and doesn't much care how or for what reasons. These voters run the gamut from those who think Johnson will usher in Communism...
...pigs live better than half the world," said Farmer William Conover of Rhodes, Iowa. Conover is right, of course. His coddled swine get plenty of food, shots, pills, antibiotics, running water and living space. Now they are going to have something even more remarkable: an automated maternity ward, invented by Conover, that will keep expectant pigs in the pink and enable one man to feed 46 sows in 3½ minutes through a feed mixer with a rotating arm. Conover's maternity ward (cost: $30,000) was displayed last week at an exhibit in Brookston, Ind., which drew...
...nephew Tony, the two lawyers who run Marshall and Benton Counties; Sheriff J. M. "Flick" Ash of Marshall County, and Roach, his redheaded deputy who carries a hefty cane on Freedom Days, and whose face turns nearly as red as his hair when a freedom worker approaches; Sheriff Brooks Ward and Deputy Oliver Crumpton, the "laws" of Benton County: some of the workers got to know these men quite well...