Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHILE visiting several hospitals," Mayer reports, "we saw children on the floor between the beds, along the outside corridors, and often two or ore to each bed. There was not one well nourished child among the 80 seen in one 20-bed ward. Particularly disturbing to witness was one small girl with the arm in a cast, the victim of a bombing attack, who refused to come out from beneath her bed, afraid of the bombs. Children as young as 16 months of age were observed running into bunkers when they heard the first warning shots before the bombs fall...
...special election is being held to fill six vacancies on the 50-man city council. Independent Democrats will challenge machine-backed candidates in five of the six races. They have reasonable hopes of winning two seats, with Fred Hubbard, 39, a black youth worker running in a largely Negro ward, and William Singer, 28, a lawyer who campaigned for Robert Kennedy and is running in a well-to-do Near North Side ward...
...desperate and imaginative efforts to clear fog from airports, highways and other critical areas, meteorologists have used giant fans, rotating racks strung with nylon strands and chemicals dropped from planes or spewed up ward from strange machines on the ground. Now the U.S. Air Force thinks that it has found a practical new weap on in the continuing fight against fog: the helicopter...
...When I first started, nobody listened," says Kenneth Ward, senior vice president of Hay den, Stone & Co., a Manhattan-based brokerage house. That was 37 years ago, when Ward was one of a hardy but much heckled band of analysts who presumed to forecast stock prices merely by reading lines on charts. Ward can hardly complain of the following that has since been won by Wall Street's chart-oriented technicians. Practically every house and mutual fund has one or more chartists in its research department, and thou sands of individual subscribers pay any where from...
...coupling of spirituality and political sentimentality" dismayed the Christian Century's editors, who assailed "those who find their security in sanctifying the status quo." Raising a different objection, the Rev. Dudley Ward, a general secretary of the United Methodist Church, thinks Nixon should attend local churches and not confine his devotions to the White House. Says Ward: "European royalty had its private chapels, insulated from the wider community. The President represents the nation and the people, and cannot isolate himself from the important institutions in our national life...