Word: warde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth-control program became the province of Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, a spinster, a Christian, and a devoted disciple of Gandhi, who taught that the only proper method of birth control is continence. "Harnessing science to ward off nature," said Miss Kaur, "is fraught with tremendous risk for the moral fiber of the nation." Therefore, by Minister Kaur's order Health Ministry workers taught only the rhythm method. Women were given beads to keep track of "safe" days (green) and "baby" days (black). But some women refused to use the beads on the ground that in India only...
Some manage jokes. Said Grammarian Dominique Bouhours: "I am about to-or I am going to-die; either expression is used." Asked how high he could lift his arm, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said: "Well, high enough to hit you, doctor...
...Japanese P.W. camps. The Peking man vanished. Some U.S. anthropologists believe that the precious bones lie unrecognized somewhere in North China. Or, by Chinese peasant custom, they may even have been ground up as "Dragon's Teeth" medicine and tossed off with a cup of tea to ward off senility...
Cambridge City Hospital's accident ward must have been jammed. "We can't talk. We're trying to take care of patients here," someone said...
...Ward, expressing similar confidence, also noted that Business School application figures were not affected when the government withdrew GI privileges prior to the Korean...