Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes of Americans-though not too many of them-on the $10,000 bill. Thomas Jefferson has had a deuce of a time. Since 1869, his face has adorned the $2 bill, but folks have never really warmed up to the twosies. In the days of freewheeling ward politics, a $2 bill was often taken as a sign of a bought vote; shopkeepers found them increasingly bothersome to handle; and in today's affluent society the horse players are betting $5 more often than $2. Last year the U.S. Treasury stopped printing $2 bills, started gathering...
...night last week New York Timesman Martin Tolchin, 37, was visiting a friend who had just had her first baby in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. Health is Tolchin's regular Times beat, and he immediately noticed a lot of unusual hustle and bustle in the maternity ward. "I've never seen it like this before," said a passing nurse, and she ventured a reason: the great New York City power blackout had taken place nine months before, almost...
...have turned to treating the Vietnamese. Their motives are admittedly mixed. One is concern for the helpless, neglected sick; another is the challenge of severe cases. "Imagine!" says Dr. Pitlyk, "I wouldn't have seen a case like Hoi Pham's in five years at any emergency ward in the U.S., where people just don't walk around with broken necks." Surgeons also enjoy a respite from the depressing monotony of treating the destructive effects...
Born. To Burt Ward, 21, who plays Batman's teen-age sidekick, Robin, on TV, and Bonney Ward, 20, his wife of a year: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles...
What Welch's protagonist comes to, first of all, is the noisy antiseptic indignity of life in a hospital ward. Patients are frenzied or conniving; doctors hearty and indifferent. Drifting in and out of fantasies, he plods a painful path from demi-death to limited life. Welch's perceptions are keen, and his imagery probes reality like a scalpel. A nurse's face "gained an unreal nutcracker severity from the curve and compression of her nose and lips. It was as if a heavy weight on her head had crumpled the features underneath." Railroad tracks, "like never...