Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the last century, when Henry Ward Beecher kissed Mrs. Tilton, has fashionable Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. had a clergyman as controversial as the Rev. William Howard Melish, 44. Melish, an ardent, undeviating representative of the far, far left, has joined, helped found or led almost a score of organizations long since discredited by Communist infiltration. Melish's politics forced his father, the Rev. John Howard Melish, out of his job as rector at Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The younger Melish hangs on as acting pastor in his father's church only because the bishop cannot...
Montgomery Ward Thorne seemed to have everything. He grew up with a $4,200 model railroad, a collection of guns, a speedboat and an Oldsmobile convertible. If he had reached his 21st birthday next October, he would have come into a fortune. His father, Gordon Thorne. a hard-drinking heir of a Montgomery Ward & Co. founder, had left his fourth wife and their son Monty $3,000,000 in trust. But Monty's life was full of unhappiness, and his death was full of horror...
...Goodall-Sanford stockholders $20 a share for their stock ($6.25 above the stock-market price) until it had bought 380,000 of the 556,062 common shares outstanding. There was little doubt that enough stockholders would sell to give Burlington control. Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward then announced that his family, which owns 30,000 shares, would sell to Burlington, thus indicating that there would be no attempt to fight the purchase. Burlington had a good buy in Goodall. The book value of the company's common stock is $41.59 a share, and by laying...
...splendid enterprise led by Hunt, the Izzard expedition was a joke. Against some 360 coolies, Izzard had five. He had no map or compass and his equipment consisted in part of two pairs of sneakers, a few pots, an old U.S. Army pup tent, an umbrella to ward off the leeches that fell like leaves from the trees. The incongruous team traveled fast and far over rough country carpeted with rhododendrons, orchids and magnolias. Izzard had never climbed anything more formidable than a flight of stairs, but he caught up to the British advance party after 19 days...
...Monmouth inquiry. Two days before the hearings opened, he shifted strategy. He contended that Assistant Defense Secretary H. Struve Hensel masterminded Army charges" against the Senator to ward off "an inquiry into 'serious charges of misconduct and possible law violations' by Mr. Hensel in a wartime Navy deal...