Word: ward
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other bones nearby, his colleagues determined the skull's age. Its pedigree was trickier. It has the structure of a late australopithecine: wide palate, huge rear molars, enormous cheekbones and a pronounced crest of bone running along the top of the skull. But other features -- a for- ward-thrusting muzzle, an orangutan-size brain and an apelike jaw structure -- are primitive. Leakey believes this mosaic suggests, as he has argued for years, that Johanson is wrong and that his reconstruction of afarensis is actually based on two different species. And, Leakey says, the new fossil, labeled WT 17000, resembles...
...sanctions argue that since blacks make up as much as 65% of South Africa's labor force, they will suffer the most in loss of jobs if the country's economy is seriously hurt. While this is true, it is a fear apparently being exaggerated by Pretoria to ward off sanctions. Massive unemployment does not seem likely unless many more nations join in a total trade embargo against South Africa than now seem willing...
...passengers and 23 crew. The President and his wife will be tucked up in a spacious bedroom in the nose, complete with vanity, closets, lavatory and shower-tub. There will be a commodious presidential office, conference room, staff lounge, working stations with computers, guest area and a ward for the media, with telex terminals, in the tail. A tiny hospital will be wedged in and maybe even a meeting room for the First Lady. Upstairs will be communications gear and crew quarters...
...wrath over censorship of the Battle Hymn and especially the beloved Onward. In recent weeks the hymnal committee's Nashville office has been besieged with 9,000 letters of protest. Chastened, the panel held an emergency meeting last week and reversed itself, though the unrepentant Rev. Beryl Ingram-Ward of Bellevue, Wash., still argued against the notion of "the warrior Christ...
...dealers' base houses are veritable fortresses, guarded by thugs armed with pistols and sawed-off shotguns. Metal bars cover the windows; steel mesh and heavy beams are used to bar the doors. With some places reaping monthly profits of more than $20,000, dealers need such heavy security to ward off not only cops but competitors...