Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were. They belonged to Task Force 136, commanded by Vice Admiral Alfred G. Ward, 53, a gunnery specialist who has developed into one of the Navy's most respected strategists. Under Ward were approximately 80 ships. In reserve was the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise. Navy P2V, P5M and P3V patrol planes, flying out of bases all along the East Coast and Florida, and from carriers encircling Cuba (see map), put the Soviet ships under constant surveillance within 800 miles of Cuba...
...Daddy! Daddy!" At the opening bell, Fullmer characteristically folded his arms in front of him to ward off punches and lunged forward-straight into a barrage of overhand rights and crisp left hooks that snapped his head back and opened a small cut at the edge of his left eye. Desperately, Fullmer began to elbow and butt, trying to bull Tiger into the ropes. Ruthlessly, the Nigerian Tiger mimicked him, tactic for tactic. By the ninth round, blood cascaded down the champion's left cheek. Sitting horror-stricken at ringside, four-year-old DeLaun Fullmer screamed, "Daddy! Daddy...
...Plotting Ward Heelers. There is scarcely a patriotic military man to be found in Seven Days in May. They are all engaged in a plot to overthrow the President because he has negotiated a disarmament treaty with Russia. Chief conspirator is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Scott, who combines Eisenhower's charm with MacArthur's hauteur. Knebel-Bailey save the country from the conspirators, but they might as well have let the military take over, considering that the political savvy of their top politicos is somewhere below the ward heeler level. The Vice...
...this country, and the reasons for his criticisms of it. "If you accept the fact that I refuse to get out of this country--that it is my country as much as anyone else's--then you must realize that I won't live in it as the ward of the white people. I will accept my full responsibility for its future...
Early in the final period, fullback Lou Williams lifted a long, high kick up the middle of the field which Eb Kluflo gathered in and converted into a goal by outrunning the Columbia fullbacks in the grand style of Ohiri and Billy Ward. Williams' set-up demonstrated once again how his defensive play can be a positive boon to the Crimson offense...