Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were punished with a red-hot poker thrust through the profane tongue. In 1900 a New York judge committed an actress to Bellevue for smoking cigarettes. In 1905 the U.S. had more pianos and cottage organs than bathtubs. Mickey Mantle's testimonial versatility pales beside that of Henry Ward Beecher, the preacher, who in the 19th century endorsed numerous products, including soap, sewing machines and trusses. Once, nice girls wore black silk mittens to breakfast, and gentlemen kept their hats on indoors. And, in polite company, gentlemen referred to chickens as boy-birds and girl-birds, and never used...
...Cyprus with Greece. In 1964, the Greek government seemed to side with Grivas when it sent him to Nicosia to take charge of Cyprus' 11,000-man National Guard, the regular 950-man Greek army contingent, and some 8,500 mainland "volunteers" stationed in Cyprus to help ward off any possible invasion by Turkey. Ever since then, Makarios has been appealing to Athens to curtail Grivas' powers, and to put the local Cypriot National Guard back under Cypriot control...
...Jerry Butler started his career as lead singer of the Impressions. 34. Clyde McPatter, of course, sang with the Drifters. But according to two entries he was a member of Billy Ward's Dominos at one time, and this was verified by the Early Bird of Radio Station WILD...
Presidential politics today rule supreme in Britain. As local politicians scurry about in the three weeks of official campaigning which precede the general election set for March 31, they share the goal of their ward-dwelling American brethren-- sell...
Died. Viscount Astor, 58, son of Virginia-born Lady Astor, Britain's first woman to sit in Parliament and hostess of the sparkling intellectual "Cliveden Set" at the family estate in the '30s, himself a onetime M.P., who rented a cottage to Osteopath Stephen Ward in 1956 and thereby spawned a demimonde that featured Call Girl Christine Keeler until it collapsed amid the Profumo scandal of 1963; of an apparent heart attack; in Nassau, the Bahamas...