Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monkeys - including some woolies, sakis, titis, cotton-head tamarins and marmosets, as well as the howlers - live in somewhat better style than the Lindberghs, who keep only two of the manor's ten drafty rooms heated. By contrast, their primate wards have roomy indoor cages painted pink (the monkeys' favorite color) that are equipped with real tree branches to perch on, ultraviolet lights to ward off infection, radiators, circulating water, and hammocks for naps. Their diet is lavish. Scott calls it "saturation feeding"; Alika, though promoting it, calls it gas-pillage - "sheer waste." The animals are served such...
...Udana Power, who maintains a wide-eyed innocence through more than 50 years of changing features, and to Roger Robinson, whose five parts include both the piano player from Casablanca and Viola, the archetype of all comic maids. As Viola he is transcendentally ridiculous, bustling ever back ward and sounding alarmingly like a zither that is about to lose its strings...
Until early in the second half, the contest looked like it would be a fight to the finish. Harvard held a 2-1 advantage after the first quarter on goals by freshman Gary Pedroni and Bill Forbush. Pedroni started on attack along with fellow Yardling Mike Ward and veteran Steve Martin, while Chico MacKenzie made his second start on midfield and early-season star Pete Predun sat on the bench...
...Ward finally broke the Harvard drought at 10:32 of the final quarter, but Boltja fired home his sixth of the afternoon less than a minute later to make sure no late rally developed...
Carter's chief economic adviser, Charles Schultze, a longtime liberal, detailed the case for restraint. Pinning his projections mainly on expansion in that old Republican ward, the private sector, Schultze projected economic growth totaling 22% over a five-year period, creating 9.7 million jobs and reducing unemployment from its current level of 7% to 4.3% by 1981. At the same time, the inflation rate (now above 6%) would be pared to just over 4%. Growth alone, said Schultze, would allow Carter to balance the budget, but federal spending could not be permitted to increase much more than...