Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Survivors, meaning that no institution came out of the '60s intact. After gloomily surveying the current cultural barrenness, he speaks of the Decade with No Audience and concludes even more gloomily with the Decade of No Nation. For this contribution, Fairlie deserves the Deep Thumb a ward-of the decade, or at least of the year...
...Chicago's Johnson frets that Congress's move to defer mandatory retirement age to 70, beginning in 1982, will prevent Chicago from hiring 100 new assistant professors during the following five years. Says he: "It's going to turn every school into more of a geriatric ward, and that is not good for higher education...
...Crimson could not ward off the pressing Eagle attack. At 19:12 of the third, Harvard freshman Mitch Olson fanned on a pass in the Crimson end, and B.C. Captain Joe Mullen fed Paul Hammer who beat Harvard netminder Wade Lau to send the game into...
...Belton 3 2-3 8, Welch 5 0-0 10, Schmalzreid 4 2-2 10, Perry 7 6-7 20, Giovacchini 8 6-8 22, Ryan 4 0-2 8, Morgan 3 0-0 6, Ward 2 0-2 4, Marty 0 2-2 2, Crandell 3 1-2 7, Barnes 1 0-0 2, Lallas 1 2-2 4, Howard 0 0-0 0, Totals...
When the post office in Troy, Mich., summoned Michael Achorn to pick up a 2-ft.-long 40-lb. package, his wife Margaret cheerfully went to accept it, but as she drove it back to her office in Detroit, she began to worry. The box was from Montgomery Ward, but the sender, Edward Achorn, was unknown to Margaret and her husband despite the identical last name. What if the thing was a bomb? She telephoned postal authorities...