Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team's top pitcher, Andy Ward, went all the way against Virginia. He allowed five of the loser's six runs to score on wild pitches, however, and needed the heavy plate support, provided by Cleary, Butters, and Dick Scheer, who each collected two hits...
...among the lucky few of the wounded who got out early. The others had to wait, lying in foxholes the size of their stretchers, until the skies over Dienbienphu cleared and the planes which could strike at the Viet Minh Communist artillery zeroed in on the airstrip. Outside his ward in the military hospital at Hanoi, the corridors are filled with other wounded, in cots crowded head to foot in a row. The legionnaire talks matter-of-factly of the paratroop drop and of the wound he got only half an hour after landing; no heroism, no bravado, no whimpering...
...mail-order house, has gone in for freehanded expansion, spent around $300 million to increase its retail outlets from 610 to 694 and another $26 million to open 24 stores in Latin America. On the other hand, crusty old Sewell L. Avery, 80, chairman of Montgomery Ward & Co., the No. 2 mail-order house, has been expecting a bad depression, has closed down an estimated 31 stores and shortened leases on others...
Last week the results of both policies were reflected in earnings statements for 1953. Sears's sales bulged to a record $2,981,925,186, up 1.7%, and earnings were up even more, from $110 million to $118 million. Ward's sales fell 7.9% to $999,123,379 (below $1 billion for the first time since 1946), and net profit dropped from $49 million to $41 million. But in one balance-sheet figure, cautious Montgomery Ward-"the only bank with a store front"-had the edge. Ward owed no money, and its cash of $23 million and Government...
Despite the less of two starting pitchers from last year, the team seems least likely to run into trouble with its pitching staff. Bob Ward is gone, but Andy Ward inactive part of last season for disciplinary reasons--seems capable of filling the hole his namesake left. Two other possible starters who might make up for the loss of Pat Groper are John Arnold and Ken Rossano. All three are right-handers...