Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department Building in Washington's Foggy Bottom, office windows glow far into the night. Presidential address-drafters (Contingency Division) are apparently preparing for every eventuality. One draft of a possible Johnson TV address to the nation, found scribbled on the flyleaf of an abandoned copy of Barbara Ward's The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations, reportedly reads as follows...
...visited the hospital at Quang Ngai and went through it in some detail with a doctor working with the Quaker unit. There was a standard medical ward which perhaps had an increase in the standard diseases of the area, malaria, diphtheria, cholera, plague had broken out in the region. And the other things that you are wont to find in this part of the world. But when we went beyond the medical ward into the severe injury ward, you saw the full horror of the war itself...
...Howard Rusk, the New York Times medical correspondent found only six or seven in the whole of Vietnam. I often wonder, having visited the hospital at Quang Ngai, just where he had his eyes as he walked through this hospital. There were over seventy people in the burn ward at Quang Ngai when we visited there. Some forty of them had burns traceable to napalm...
Planet of the Apes "The monkey," said Henry Ward Beecher, "is an organized sarcasm upon the human race." The sarcasm is seldom allowed to speak for itself in this film about a space odyssey that goes awry and crash-lands three astronauts on an unknown planet. They have been traveling for a cool millennium or so, but their craft has been zooming along at close to the speed of light, and so-in accordance with Einstein's Time-Dilation Theory-they have scarcely aged, save for some grey in their beards. At first, all they find is sand...
Broken Promise. Soviet writers also had another cause for rage. Last week, at the last possible moment, the Kremlin vetoed the printing of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's long-suppressed novel Cancer Ward. The literary community has long regarded the Kremlin's promise to publish the novel in the December issue of the journal Novy Mir as a test of the regime's avowed good intentions. But Solzhenitsyn, author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, last summer denounced censorship in a widely circulated letter and recently was attacked by the editor of Pravda as a "psychologically...