Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lloyd Ruby stood there in the Indiana rain with Rodger Ward, in front of a television camera, and a million or so people in TV land watched them. Roger Ward had won the Indianapolis 500 twice, and then, with a tearful speech, retired in 1966. Now he was back as the resident racer on ABC's Wide World of Sports, interviewing Ruby following the first day of qualifications for this year's edition of the race...
...folks, this is Lloyd Ruby, whose car was in line to qualify when the rain caused qualifications to end early today." said Ward peering into the TV camera. "I know that it's a big disappointment for you, Lloyd, not being able to get a shot at the pole position." There are two weekends of qualifications for the 500. The pole position, on the inside of the first row, goes to the fastest qualifier on the first Saturday of qualifications. In pre-qualifying practice sessions Ruby's had been among the fastest cars, and he was a favorite...
...Ward continued. "But, I know that you'll be back tomorrow, running as fast as you can, to get the best qualifying position that you can." With that Ward poked the microphone under Ruby's face. In three out of the past four 500's Ruby had had victory in sight, only to fall victim to some unlikely mechanical failure. His luck at Indy has been on the under side of average. He just stood there, scuffing his foot on the asphalt. Finally, he turned to face Ward. "It just doesn't matter, now," he said softly. "We're going...
...messages equivocated, its complexity reduced to a sacrosanct canon of saccharine passages and colored pictures. It was a world from which textbook writers had effectively exorcised all inferiority and superiority, all ethical dimension. In our history books, other cultures were dealt with almost secondarily: America, like its TV heroes Ward Cleaver and Garfield Goose, survived all calamities and obstacles, fashioned mediocrity into national grace by way of an obtuse patriotism. Other cultures were compared to Amerika's, but with no sense of cultural relativity. From texts and Weekly Readers, we learned a national solipsism and irremedial egoism that made...
...Phnom-Penh, soldiers were installing Soviet-made 122-mm. artillery pieces to ward off any thrust from the south. Other troops, including elements of a 3,000-man contingent of Cambodian mercenaries who had fought with American Green Berets in Viet Nam, mounted a counterattack on Neak Luong. The tough, red-scarfed mercenaries, who were airlifted into Phnom-Penh last week to back up Lon Nol's weak 35,000-man army, expect to link up with South Vietnamese forces that were closing in on Neak Luong at week...