Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by ALAN MYERSON Screenplay by DAVID S. WARD...
...such a move. Full nationalization of the line is supported by some labor leaders, but has few fans in either management or Government Unprofitable and unwanted, the line will probably continue to lurch from crisis to crisis until some day, more by default than design, it ends up a ward or U.S. taxpayers...
Theda Skocpol, a graduate student in Sociology, and Wesley E. Profit '69, a tutor in Afro-American Studies, also committed their departments to the sick-ward...
...this tragicomedy of errors. Over sumptuous dinner, Lenny tries to break the news of his decision to divorce her. When he finally makes it clear, Lila sobbingly responds in character: "Lenny... I think I have to throw up." She finally collapses into his arms, and he tries to ward off the poignancy of the moment with empty consolations: "When two people share a common tragedy..." But it defeats him; at the end of the scene, Lila cries on with the nobility of the victim, as he falls into guilty silence...
That was the start of a harrowing, 20-hour ordeal for Knox, one of the U.S.'s few black ambassadors, and his second in command, Ward Christensen, who was held when he called at the residence later. The kidnapers demanded the release of 31 political prisoners held in the infamous Dessalines barracks. They picked Knox as hostage because, as he explained later, "I had a certain influence here...