Word: ward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan has called the recommendation a "desirable evolution to ward small, single warhead ICBMs" it may have been MX that ensured the White House would take Midgetman and the other points seriously. But the giant ICBM will dominate the years between now and any deployment of a smaller weapon probably in the mid 1990s...
DIED. Theodore Ward, 80, Louisiana-born, Chicago-based playwright whose critically acclaimed major works (Big White Fog, Our Lan') not only depicted racial oppression in America but also sought to create heroic black protagonists; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
...limit Undeployment of the U.S. missiles scheduled for basing in Europe the Soviets are trying to preserve the military and political significance of the Soviet INF threat to West Germany. The traditional Soviet preoccupation with Germany, and with the possibility of German reunification is evident in Soviet policies to ward other arms control and security issues in Europe...
...Harvard 5 2B--Haring DiCesare, Maspons Weller, Merleth HR--Allard: 7, Vierra (3) DP--URI 3. Harvard 1 SB--Kay S-Harper SF Vierra. IP H R ER BB SO Harvard Larson L 5-1 7 10 7 7 2 7 Brown 2 1 0 0 0 0 URI Ward...
Poor acting and stage directions are occasionally forgotten because of the extreme humor of the dialogue. But the actual women in The Importance of Being Earnest, Riggs and Worthing's "excessively pretty 18-year-old ward" Cecily Cardew (Melinda McNavy), act like two adolescents in love for the first time. After Cardew leaves Algernon, whom she has just met, she says deridingly that "a momentary separation from someone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable." But their costumes are distasteful and their overly innocent manners crush Wilde's lines to triteness...