Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Queen Elizabeth II-marking 114 years of Anglo-Liberian friendship. As they boarded an open landau for the 40-minute trot to Buckingham Palace along with squads of Household Cavalry, the rains came. The Queen balanced a royal bumbershoot, but President Tubman had only his black topper to ward off the downpour as he waved to the smattering of onlookers along their route. At the palace, the Queen gave a very wet Tubman a well-earned honor-the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath...
These high-salaried, early-morning moonlighters were devout Mormons helping to build a new $600,000 chapel for a ward (parish) in Federal Heights, a prosperous Salt Lake City suburb where homes cost up to $85,000 and the average income is about $13,000 a year. By Mormon rule, the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contribute half of the chapel's cost; the ward's members must pay the rest. The Mormons of Federal Heights have collected most of their cash quota, but they decided to supplement it by taking advantage...
Since work began in May, volunteer chapel builders have put in more than 500 hours of hard labor on Saturdays, Thursday evenings, and early mornings, mostly on such relatively simple tasks as painting and pouring concrete. Utah's Governor George Dewey Clyde, who lives in the ward, put in one enthusiastic session with a shovel. Henry D. Moyle. an oil company millionaire who is counselor to Church President David McKay, has been over to the chapel project twice, promises to do some carpentering later...
...European Grand Prix race; the Grand Prix of France at Rouen, carefully nursing his German Porsche through the 219½-mile race at a slow (relatively) but sure average speed of 101.9 m.p.h. while faster cars broke down and dropped out. - Tennessee State's Wilma Rudolph Ward, lithe triple gold-medal winner at the 1960 Olympics; the 100-yd. dash at the women's National A.A.U. championships; in 10.8 sec., only .1 sec. off her own meet record...
...ward off delay if a more vital component should fail-something that cannot be so easily replaced-Bell engineers have built into the system many alternative ways for the central to restart itself after a few millionths of a second of hesitation. While testing these precautions recently, they made a disquieting discovery: the loyal and resourceful machine was using an emergency procedure that had not been programmed into it by human brains. Poking into the mazes of wires with their clumsy human hands, the engineers found one wire that had been connected accidentally to a terminal that led nowhere. Says...