Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taped conversations between Nixon and Special Counsel Charles Colson: " 'Sleazy' was the first word that came to my mind as I listened . . . It sounded like two cheap ward heelers talking in the rear room of a neighborhood dive...
Died. Robert L. May, 71, Midwest adman who sat down in 1939 to write Christmas promotion for Montgomery Ward & Co. and came up with the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, of cancer; in Evanston, 111. After Ward handed over the Rudolph copyright to May in 1947, he received royalties on more than 100 Red-Nosed products and on the hit song written...
...that about two-thirds of the cases detected were in an early, curable stage-and only about half these cancers could have been detected without X rays. Said Dr. Philip Strax, director of the New York detection center: "The real risk is in not doing mammography." Added Dr. Barbara Ward of Boise, Idaho: "These reports are doing more damage than good by scaring women away...
Tricky Business. Rehearsing her chorus, Hillis is both morale builder and teacher. At one point in the Ninth she holds her palm out as if to ward off the sound. "Piano. Piano. You know that young man will hold that note forever," she says, referring to James Levine, 33, music director of the Met, who is to conduct the full symphony. "I expect you to be as young as he is." A few measures later she is talking about one of the chorus' celebrated pianissimos. "Sopranos, listen to the tenors and just place the sparkling star gently above their...
...state of decay. The concierge (Shelley Winters) shows him a flat whose previous occupant, a young woman, attempted suicide by jumping out of a window into the courtyard below. Trelkovsky gets his only glimpse of the girl during a visit to the hospital, where he finds her on a ward bed, wrapped in gauze like a mummy on welfare. She stares at him, at another girl (Isabella Adjam) who is also visiting, then screams, opening her mouth and letting the sound rush out between broken teeth. She dies. Trelkovsky moves into the apartment...