Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrenched his back in a fall, he offered the cheering words that he could go home the next day. Checking the condition of a 59-year-old housewife, he satisfied himself that she was recovering from the burns she received in a kitchen fire. In the maternity ward, he gave tips on bottle feeding to the woman whose baby he had just brought into the world...
Nearby residents learned about the escape in the time-honored way: the siren began to wail. But with the phones out, Assistant Warden Clayton Davis had to send a man those six miles by car to report the escape to the sheriff in Wartburg. Capturing the wounded prisoner Ward was no problem; he was right outside the wall. Local roads were swiftly blocked off. But prison officials needed 45 minutes before they could organize a full-scale search. With six bloodhounds in the lead, a posse started after the group, which had disappeared in the direction of Frozen Head Mountain...
...Died. Ward Melville, 90, chairman of the board of the Melville Corp.; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Melville, who started out working for his father's shoe store at $8 a week, helped turn the business into a billion-dollar company by mass-producing low-priced shoes. He also founded the Miles and Thom McAn shoe chains...
...most spectacular of these, when viewed personally and from below, can inspire wonderment and envy. Who could not feel underpaid when contemplating the $1.662 million that Harry J. Gray made last year as chief executive of United Technologies? In the face of such sums, ordinary Americans may ward off envy by remembering that they are also rewarded with "psychic income" (community regard, the feeling of being useful). Yet given the news that Marlon Brando is getting $2.25 million for 12 days of playacting-well, which of the vast hand-to-mouth crowd will not wonder whether psychic income is really...
...notion of the miserable, duty-whipped jogger is hard to support by talking to the runners themselves. In farm country near Aurora, Ill., a couple of weeks ago, 17 souls who could have been sitting in front of the tube with six-packs smeared Vaseline on their feet, to ward off blisters, and loped off for a 50-mile foot race. The temperature was close to 90°. By the 20-mile mark, 35-year-old Romance Language Teacher Alberto Meza gave up and rolled under a faucet in the Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve. Water streamed over...