Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concentrated Devastation. Mid-July temperature records were cracked in more than a dozen cities, making newspaper weather listings read like hospital-ward fever charts. Before the heat wave began to break at week's end, New York sizzled through nine straight days of above-90° temperatures; Boston, six; Chicago, eleven; Washington, ten. In a normal year, about 175 Americans die from the effects of hot weather. This year the count is just beginning, but the latest Red Cross estimate is that several hundred have died from the heat-and it's a long, long time from...
...worse-on the volatile frontier between the two Koreas. With a burst of gunfire, North Korean forces downed a U.S. helicopter that had strayed across the demarcation line; within minutes three of the American crewmen lay dead and the one survivor of the flight was taken prisoner. To ward off yet another Korean crisis, the White House moved quickly to defuse the situation created by the accidental incursion and North Korea's brutal response...
Part of the reason is a studied even-handedness that smacks more of documentary than drama. Deborah (Kathleen Quinlan) is blessed with an extraordinarily sympathetic and skillful psychiatrist, Dr. Fried (Bibi Andersson), but the other psychiatrists are portrayed as stodgy and rigid. Most of the patients in the disturbed ward are worse off than Deborah (Sylvia Sidney, Signe Hasso and Susan Tyrrell, among others, have a high old time playing them), but one-who befriends Deborah-is better. One of the male nurses is brutal, but another is kind...
...except for the fact that if it were during the year I'd never have taken a course that met a 9 a.m."--but he is also working as a bartender for the Harvard Student Agencies and spending two afternoons a week working as a volunteer in the emergency ward at Mass. General...
Mass March. Union leaders concede that mass picketing is difficult to control and may lead to trouble. But they argue that Ward's defiance has left them with no alternative other than to call for support of the Grunwick strikers. A mass march of union members and strike sympathizers is scheduled for this week. Arthur Scargill, arrested by police last month when he appeared at Grunwick, promises that 3,000 members of his Yorkshire miners' union will participate in the demonstration...