Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down-to-earth appearance at face value is that, when you're talking about the tenor of community politics, part of what you have to look at is the fixtures in that community, and I don't mean the plumbing. Anyone who considers it will realize that, on a ward-by-ward basis, incumbents have a big advantage as long as they don't do too bad a job. The history of boss rule as a major political structure in many American cities bears this out. In short, provided he can remember the names of the men and women...
...John P. Ward Buenos Aires...
...there is only one armored division, stationed around Damascus, that is in position to ward off an Israeli attack...
...spin out of control, its IRA driver shot through the heart by a British soldier. The car slammed a pedestrian, Anne Maguire, and her three children against a school railing. Maguire, a mechanic's wife, was so seriously hurt that as she lay in an intensive-care ward at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital last week, she still did not know that the three children-Joanne, 8, John, 3, and Andrew, 6 weeks -were dead. Nor did she know that their deaths had provoked Betty Williams into organizing the most impressive peace demonstrations that Northern Ireland has seen...
...really, is 50 or so colorful plastic cylinders slipped onto a piece of rope, and it only costs about 75? to make. But Sears, Roebuck, J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward all carry the Lifeline jump rope (plus its special exercise booklet) for $4.95 a throw. These days, legions of Americans who are neither little girls nor prizefighters are jumping rope-and making Bobby Hinds an instant tycoon...