Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Clara Ward, 48, petite, thunder-voiced leader of the Ward Gospel Singers; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A Philadelphia Baptist who began singing solos in black churches at the age of five, Ward formed her own group while still a teenager. They added choreography to their act and nightclub patrons to their audience, and became one of the most successful gospel groups of the '50s and '60s. To purists who criticized their cabaret appearances-and their lavender limousine-Ward responded: "We're just traveling the highways and hedges for the Lord." -Died. LA. ("Al") Horowitz...
...worth traversing the particularly bad roads or risking the frequently canceled air trip. Once there, tourists can take a two-hour horseback ride up La Ferriere mountain to visit the ruins of the Citadelle, a huge stone fortress built by one of Haiti's liberators, Henri Christophe, to ward off an invasion that never came...
...reporting of it more challenging, in the mid-20s. One bright spot was The Crimson's coverage of the arrest of H.L. Mencken in Boston for selling the April 1926 issue of The American Mercury. Mencken gave The Crimson an interview and lashed out at the Watch and Ward Society leader who had engineered his arrest. The 1927 "riot" in the Square, a police-instigated incident which embroiled the City and University in controversy, received several feet of column space in the Spring of 1927, including an extra story with one of the longest lead sentences in the paper...
...Service News was strictly a service news in the summer of '43, when it first became the University's only newspaper. But tucked in among columns by and for army and navy trainees--The Lucky Bag, Scuttlebut, Ward Room Topics, Specialist's Corner, Creating a Ripple, and the like--was an irregular bylined feature called "Passing the Buck," Written by the Service News first editor, Robert S. Landau '45, who later was killed in naval action in the invasion of Lingayen Gulf, the Philippines, the column attacked a "back-handed diatribe" in the Boston Herald, demanded resumption of gridiron hostilities...
This is what might be considered a hair-line case. In March 1944, the big news in Boston, and in all the literary tea circles, was the banning by the Watch and Ward Society of "Strange Fruit." There wasn't much of a Harvard angle, but the whole business was too hot to pass up altogether...