Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cancer Ward...
...rebuke to violence, 1,000 New York schoolchildren turned a mound of toy guns and comics?including Superman and Combat?over to trash collectors. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward stopped mail-order gun sales after King's assassination; Macy's, Alexander's and Abraham & Straus in New York had quit selling guns even before that. Last week Ohio's J-Mart discount stores gave their entire $20,000 inventory of guns to the Columbus police...
...scores of other shuffling men in their faded blue pajamas. It is the colonel making his rounds, passing out Purple Hearts and, oddly, saying "Congratulations" with each presentation. Day is earnest conversation with the guy in the next bed, and jokes, not good but well shared. Day in Ward 6, Surgical, is a bore...
NARROW is the horizon in Ward 6, Surgical. It is a drab room, twice as long as it is wide, divided down the center by a low partition. Two rows of steel beds run like exposed ribs down each side. At one end is the businesslike nurses' station, a bookcase with a collection of old magazines and paperbacks, a too-loud TV set. There are no flowers, no pictures, no decorations. There are windows all around, but no one bothers to look...
American Activities in the Central Pacific, 1790-1870, Ernest S. Dodge & R. Gerard Ward...