Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debts of billion and reserves of only $3 billion. Could not Britain become a financial burden on its prospective Common Market partners if its creditors suddenly called in all their debts? Not a chance replied Wilson, explaining that Britain's huge foreign investments were more than ample to ward off a run on the pound. (He could also have mentioned -but probably diplomatically did not- that Britain's pound has been shored up at times by massive aid from...
...concentrating chiefly on smokes, the rest of the industry has been on a merger spree, picking up products ranging from Chun King (Reynolds) to Clark Gum (Philip Morris). Now American is beginning to catch up with the trend, which began with the health scares of the late 50s, to ward profitable acquisitions as a hedge against poor cigarette sales prospects. Last May, American took over Sun shine Biscuits, Inc., the nation's second largest biscuit maker, in a $113 million stock swap. Last month it bought 96% control of Chicago's James B. Beam Distilling Co. for some...
...present one ward of the Bridgewater State Hospital contains men who have been in the hospital for as long as 50 years after having been committed for crimes as small as vagrency...
...into. The majority probably still feels right-but troubled. The President summed up the uneasy moral choice in his State of the Union Address. "It is the melancholy law of human societies," he said, quoting Thomas Jefferson, "to be compelled sometimes to choose a great evil in order to ward off a greater evil." On the other side, a chorus of clerics, academics and polemicists of every tone proclaims that the U.S. position is evil, or at least morally questionable. When Cardinal Spellman exhorted American soldiers to hope and fight for victory in Viet Nam, he was widely criticized...
...been separately published as a novel. Wise Blood deals with a familiar theme: man obsessed to the point of fanaticism. The scene is the dirt-road South outside the progressive and prosperous mainstream of U.S. life. In a modern U.S. city, there is no place outside of the psychiatric ward for the hero of Wise Blood, a gaunt drifter who blinds himself the better to see God and extinguish the devil...