Word: ward
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the hot gales of Congo nationalism blowing next door, the rulers of the sprawling, white-dominated Rhodesias were casting nervous glances at their own restive African populations. In copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, where apartheid-loving South African miners have settled by the thousands, the government has sought to ward off the independence virus among the blacks by marshaling troops along the Congo border, churning out emergency decrees and clapping African leaders into detention...
...calling little Miles Standish "Captain Shrimp." Between Thomas Morton and Morton Sahl, most political satirists shielded themselves with pseudonyms and fought with fairly heavy steel. Charles Farrar Browne, city editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, set himself up in mid-19th century as the cracker-box philosopher Artemus Ward, announced that the D.C. after Washington stood for "Desprit Cusses," and advised President Lincoln to fill his Cabinet with show-business types since they would know how to cater to the public. Mark Twain was often deserted by his light touch when he contemplated politics, though he contributed a pair...
...madras shorts, a massive masseur, a maid, a secretary, three wardrobe women (she has three copies of each dress she wears in the film), and Paula Strasberg. Dramatic coach, lay analyst, and wife of the Actors' Studio's Lee Strasberg, Paula stayed close to her ward, nib bled away at a large palmetto fan, sent notes around the set on postcards that pictured an ax and a chopping block. Wearing a black babushka, black glasses, black duster and carrying a black bag that seemed to contain everything from tranquilizers to a bunch of half-dead roses, she tossed...
...everything else fails. The fact that "Europe is vigorous and thriving and fully with us" is hardly comforting in the light of Russia's ability to overrun it, in a matter of days, if she so chooses, at the same time delivering us a crippling blow to ward off any opposition. At any given moment, Russia has that physical and psychological edge...
Lucky Break. Ward and Fairchild had a falling out in 1946 over Fairchild's steady barrage of ideas, and Fairchild resigned from the company. Three years later he returned to wage a zestful proxy fight, plotted the battle so carefully (he even put real stamps on proxy letters because he felt that people ignored prestamped envelopes) that he won the battle five to one. He promoted Vice President Boutelle to president. In 1958, after Fairchild Engine lost its huge missile contract and went into a tailspin, Fairchild replaced him with J. M. Carmichael, former chairman of Capital Airlines. Boutelle...