Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waterbeds are empty and easy to handle when delivered from the store. They can be filled by connecting a hose to a bathroom faucet (wise owners will also pour in a healthy slug of Clorox to ward off the formation of algae). But once filled, the waterbed becomes almost impossible to move; a king-size version will weigh around...
MILITARY MEN by Ward Just. 256 pages, Knopf...
What ever happened to the U.S. Army that once fought popular wars and always seemed to win Total Victory? Gone is the glory of Normandy, the Bulge and Okinawa-battles in which, Ward Just recalls, there were "real heroes fighting real villains." In 1971, the Army is painfully on the defensive at home and in full psychological retreat in Viet Nam. Assessing the present plight of the military in an acute if contentious book, the Washington Post's former Viet Nam correspondent finds not a juggernaut but a jumble of men and machines in search of a mission...
Many are blacks who see themselves as political victims, others whites who hate the blacks. Racial tension is so bad that some prisoners wear thick magazines strapped to their backs to ward off knife blades. In January 1969, the prisoners were allowed to exercise together in a small yard. Before long, a guard shot and killed three blacks. According to the guard's testimony before a Monterey County grand jury, the blacks were beating a white inmate. The guard said that he fired a warning shot, then killed...
...Crimson freshmen also ran away with their meet, losing only two events and sweeping three. Leon Sharpe, Joe Madden, and Dick Simpson were the three top finishers in the long jump, and Joe L?combe, John Ward, and Austin O'Connor scored Harvard points in the high jump...