Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of his colleagues in the U.S. Foreign Service, long-legged Angus Ward was always a bit of a trial. When Angus joined the service in 1925, after a varied career as a lumber salesman, army officer, exporter and timber evaluator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Ivy League degree was assumed to be part of a U.S. diplomat's equipment. In such company Canadian-born Angus Ward, who spoke with a Scottish burr and who had no degree at all, stuck out like a sore thumb...
Moreover, Diplomat Ward was guilty of constant breaches of the rigidly conventional behavior that Foreign Service officers demand of one another. Whenever he and his Finnish wife moved from post to post, a small menagerie went with them. In 1934, when Moscow's Savoy Hotel refused to admit a bearded Korean hen named Skippy, which the Wards had brought with them from China, Angus promptly rented for Skippy a country house complete with personal maid. In off-duty hours Ward affected loud plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort...
This would be hard enough to duplicate with the normal losses through graduation, but Shepard's problems are magnified by his losing not only his top pitcher, Andy Ward, but five other regular starters, Don Butters, Bill Chauncey, Bill Cleary, Dick Hoffman, and Captain George MacDonald...
...toughest man to replace will be Ward, the fastballing righthander who won every game except the two he lost to Yale's Ivy champs. Captain Ken Rossano, the righthander who led the team in ERA with a 1.61 mark, will probably be the no. I man. Not as fast as Ward, he has fine stuff and good control. Behind Rossano will be another senior, Bob Kessler, a lefthander who seems to have greater staying power and a better fastball than last year, when he managed to compile...
...field, the team looks to be about as good as last year's, but the big problem will be the pitching. How well the hill corps can replace Andy Ward may spell the difference between another championship season and a record no more than fair...