Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disturbing as the claim, as some down-Easters see it, is the fact that the Indians have the active backing of the U.S. Justice Department. Actually, Justice has no choice. In a 1974 case brought by the Maine Indians, the courts affirmed that the Indian is a legal ward for whom the Federal Government is obliged to act as guardian, a relationship still little known to the public. Thus if the efforts to settle the Maine case by mediation fail, it is the Justice Department that will file suit against property owners on behalf of the Indians-a prospect that...
...Mike Nichols and Elaine May. While the camera takes you on a guided tour of the ornaments in a New York apartment, you hear a man and a woman who have picked each other up in a bar and are now trading a series of cocktail party inanities to ward off their nervousness about the whole affair. ("You know," Nichols says, "In the last two hours I can't tell you how my anxieties have been allayed.") Perhaps the comparative brilliance of "Bach to Bach" says something significant--that the less visually explicit the sexuality of a takeoff...
...Scalise has had to use his freshmen en masse to rebuild the midfield units. Yardling Mike Ward, a two-time All-City choice at Tennis's high school alma mater in Baltimore, joins regulars Bobby Mellen (15-3-18) and Bill Forbush (8-2-10) on the first trio...
...Cancer Ward...
...honest, I suppose I feel that I must begin raising my own defenses. I know that the same charges may well be leveled in public at me one day, and I fancy that I can ward them off just by declaring that I see them coming...