Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quinol compounds in elm bark, he found, that make the tree delectable to beetles. Paradoxically, when the insects begin to munch, oxidation changes the tasty quinols into quinones that repel the beetles. By this time, unfortunately, the beetles have already infected the tree with deadly fungus. To ward off the beetles, Norris is now working to synthesize a quinone-like, nontoxic repellent that can be injected into the tree or sprayed on the bark...
Boston has a reputation deserved or not for politicians who act in their own best interests. But there is a spi?itual plat?au a level above pett?, ward-heeling thi? very, that is reached rarely if ever, by mere mortals. It is the mystique of James Michael Curley...
...take part in a fast at noon on Friday, Dec, 12, as a mark of your continued opposition to the ugly war in Vietnam. We urge you to contribute at least the cost of your meal to the work of the American Friends Service Committee in the Amputee Ward and Prosthetic Unit at the hospital in Quang Ngai and to their Day Care Center for refugee children in that city, as well as for the medical supplies and surgical equipment they sent to the NLF and North Vietnam. Over 1500 Radcliffe and Harvard students have already committed themselves...
...furor in the Soviet Union over its foremost writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, last week gathered momentum. A month ago, Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Russian Writers Union on the charge that his novels, notably The First Circle and Cancer Ward, "threw mud on the motherland." Nine writers are reported to have called personally on the union's secretary to demand reconsideration of the expulsion. Seventy other writers are said to have sent letters or telegrams to the union call ing for a special rehearing of the case, and 300 others have reportedly written letters of protest...
...July 11, Genrikh Altunian, a Soviet army major and a teacher at the Military Institute of Kharkov, was arrested after a house search had turned up copies of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward and issues of the Chronicle. He was expelled from the Communist Party, cashiered from the army and jailed in a KGB isolation prison...