Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospital, having just given birth to a girl. The Abbruzzeses had already decided to name the baby Katherine Elizabeth-the Elizabeth for Betty Ford. Susan Ford, who had been the Abbruzzeses' baby sitter for years, left her mother and delivered a present to the maternity ward-two satin baby pillows that Mrs. Ford had wrapped while awaiting her namesake's arrival...
...Ward Fearnside...
Like many black athletes, Foreman grew up poor. He was the son of a railroad worker in Houston's Fifth Ward, a ghetto that even today throbs with uneasily repressed violence. His parents separated when George was a boy, and he dropped out of school in the eighth grade, quickly becoming a terror on the streets. Drunk on rotgut wine, "Monkey" Foreman was a savage gang fighter. "When we started a fight, we'd look around to see if Monkey was there," recalls Don Thomas, a former gang member with Foreman. "You had two or three cats whipped...
...handsome, intellectual Moses got on famously with the raspy-voiced, cigar-chomping Smith, a ward politician who also had a vision of the public good...
...interior does not inspire awe. Divided into dozens of rooms on nine levels, the temple has nothing comparable to the great nave and towering sanctuary of a traditional Christian cathedral. Indeed, the Mormon temple is not built for regular worship (that purpose is served by thousands of local "ward" meetinghouses) but for "temple work"-the performances of various church duties and doctrinal study. To the outsider, its rooms seem to serve function rather than majesty...