Word: ward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rocks crashed down Rudd Creek Canyon, burying at least five houses, damaging 100 more in Farmington, 17 miles north of Salt Lake City, and sending a Mormon volunteer brigade into action. Last week 15 volunteers spent an entire day cleaning out the mud-filled basement of Paul Ward, 64. They threw watermelon-size rocks onto a conveyor belt and pushed buckets of muck through a cellar window to a team of 20 men, women and children, who passed the pails from hand to hand. Says a grateful Ward: "I wasn't expecting anybody to come help. They just showed...
...present vogue, "stress" has only recently been admitted into the medical vocabulary. For years, doctors considered the term too unscientific to be taken seriously. "The moment you used the word, you were dismissed as a thinking individual," says Dr. Harold Ward, director of the stress medicine laboratory at the University of California at San Diego. One reason was the lack of an adequate definition for the concept. According to the late Dr. Hans Selye, the Austrian-born founding father of stress research, stress is simply "the rate of wear and tear in the body." But others persist in using...
...share many of the frustrations Black students feel in dealing with Harvard a poor record of minority hiring and retention, lower Black student enrollment. South African ties, and other problems However. I feel that there are many intelligent and productive ways for both students and staff to work to ward improving these situations. One of the first steps is to bring members of all of Harvard's different racial groups together to act on these issues...
...Charles Surface (Stephen Rowe); her strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub) in his attempts to win the heart of Charles's sweetheart Maria (Karen MacDonald). Matters become more complicated with the question of Charles and Joseph's inheritance from a rich uncle; the boys ward, a middle-aged curmudgeon bewildered by his pretty young wife, disagrees with the rich uncle as to which nephew is the more deserving; a game of mistaken identities is utilized to test the character of the young Surfaces; and several infidelities intervene. It all takes a bit more than three...
...circuitry, however, can ward off the perils of the ocean. Experienced sailors ran aground several times. Second-Place Finisher Reed watched in helpless panic "when a whale tried mating with me," nearly smashing the boat. There is no panacea for thirst, chronic lack of sleep, perpetual cold and clammy discomfort. Why, then, knowing all this, do sailors set out alone, again and again? Not merely because it is there. Explains Philippe Jeantot: "Because it is difficult. I enjoy succeeding in difficult things...