Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Returning to Harvard as as sophomore, Sanderson decided to become a doctor and worked nights as an orderly in the emergency ward of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital...
Deep in thought, a former Kennedy aide strode through the White House to ward the President's office, then stopped short. On a rack just outside of the oval office hung a big Stetson hat. Sec retaries, pretty but unfamiliar, bustled around through the anterooms. The doors to the President's office, nearly always open when John F. Kennedy was there, were closed tight. Inside that office, as the aide well knew, was Lyndon Baines Johnson, probably at that very moment speaking softly into a green telephone...
...Ward is dead," pleaded Barrister Jeremy Hutchinson last week. "Profumo is disgraced. And now I know your lordship will resist the temptation to take what I might call society's pound of flesh." It was no Antonio in the prisoner's dock at the Old Bailey, but cool, green-suited Christine Keeler (130 Ibs.), and the quality of mercy was not strained. Noting that she had been "under pressure, under fear and under domination," Judge Sir Anthony Hawke sentenced Christine to nine months in jail for perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice (maximum possible sentence for perjury alone...
...Sparky." One of eight children of Russian and Polish immigrants, Jack Rubenstein was born and raised in the "Bloody 20th" ward of Chicago's West Side, never finished high school. He liked to think that he had connections with racketeers-the classy kind. He affected the sharp dress of the big-time mobsters, the white-on-white shirts and ties, pearl-grey hats, phony diamond pinkie ring. He dropped hoodlum names like dandruff...
...same time, prosperity has made the national health insurance unpopular; status seekers are pained that the plan provides only ward hospitalization, restricts choice of doctors, and discourages prescribing such relatively nonessential medical delights as tranquilizers, of which Germans have become increasingly fond. "Why should I sit around all day in the waiting room of a second-rate doctor with all those grubby mineworkers or street cleaners or whatever they are?" says a pretty Bonn secretary. "I can afford better...