Word: ward
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meeting over the hardware at a Milwaukee banquet honoring them as the Associated Press's athletes of the year were Wilma Rudolph Ward, 21, the world's speediest woman, and Roger Moris, 27, HR 61. Roger was reportedly busy haggling for a 100% pay boost; Wilma, just married to a Tennessee State schoolmate, seemed intent on homemaking ("Most of the Russian women runners in the last Olympics had two or three children, and that didn't bother them...
What It Could Be. One cure for secularism in schools is suggested by Christopher Dawson's The Crisis of Western Education (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), a brief for the restoration of Christian culture in learning, by Harvard's first professor of Roman Catholic Studies. Philip H. Phenix's Education and the Common Good (Harper; $4) is a Presbyterian's plan for teaching religious values in secular schools without violating laws or liberties. John W. Gardner's Excellence (Harper; $3.95) is an eloquent case, by the articulate president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, for high...
...happy knowing the only thing in danger when I'm getting my kicks is my elbow. There is nothing to fear about drinking if you're honest with yourself as to why you drink. I have never taken a drink to improve my appetite, ward off a cold, or get a good night's sleep. I drink with the honorable intention of getting bagged...
...AGAINST US, thundered a 1956 Sullens editorial charging that anyone who was "not worried over the imminence of miscegenation, mixed marriages and mongrelization" had "no more backbone than a skinned banana." When Sullens died four years ago, the editor's chair passed to onetime News Carrier Boy Jimmy Ward, and the News's racist drum missed not a beat...
Against its steady tattoo, the voice of moderation in Mississippi can scarcely be heard. Even if it were more audible, it is not likely that many would listen. In Mississippi the rednecks like what Jimmy Ward says. And he and the News will go right on saying...