Word: warded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Agreement with the Chinese Communists is particularly difficult at present, Fairbank admitted, because of the hostility displayed by the Chinese in such acts as the arrest of Angus Ward, American Consul-General at Mukden...
Then I went to sleep. I awoke when a newsboy went through the ward calling out in a shrill voice, and later when supper came. I didn't eat anything, but I drank a lot of water. I slept on and off into the night, and I felt rotten. Finally, I slept soundly, and when I woke up in the morning I felt a little better, but I still had a sore throat and a headache...
...that I have criticized the food, I will go on to the building itself. The parts of the inside and outside of Stillman I saw were ugly. And I saw nurses walking back and forth through the ward doing little jobs. When they were at one side of the ward, they needed something at the other. And there were so many nurses walking back and forth that I hardly saw the same one twice. And in the bathroom there was a pipe across the mirror at eye level...
Because the radio blared in the ward all day, because my exam was over, and because it was almost time for the weekend, I wanted to leave, and pretty soon they let me. I wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't had an exam and had stayed in bed to begin with...
...Conant, still holding a bouquet to ward off unknowing handshakers, was discussing the impracticality of the President's House, as a home. "It was built by President Lowell whose idea of something grand was that spiral staircase over there. It's fine for allowing ladies to sweep down in a full skirt and a train, but it seems as if the staircase came first and the house as an after-thought." Someone asked her if she had occasion to sweep down with a train much, and she laughed and said not much. "Of course, this place is practical when...