Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics were far from the minds of yesterday's crowd, which broke up slowly as the amateur bagpipers and drummers--who during the week come down to earth to be truckdrivers and lawyers--made their way to the Quincy House roof to ward off any lingering banshees...
With a predicted GOP landslide repudiating the machine's political judgment ("machines must not only make the choice, but the right one," as one ward boss said) coupled with Daley's long-announced retirement in '71, a New Politics coalition of urban blacks (like Chicago Alderman Raney), white suburban liberals (like North Shore party leader Williams), and down-state forces (like Richard Mudge of Edwardsville) is a serious possibility. A liberal coalition of such size could force major concessions from what is left of the machine. This fall McCarthy forces are fighting a hopeless battle against Sen. Dirksen for liberal...
Peter Kiger, 29, who served at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., kept demanding that guards turn on the steam heat in the room of an elderly Negro patient in the psychotic ward. He claims that they not only refused, but retaliated by forcing him to spend a few days-naked -in a chilly cubicle with a stone floor, known as "the hole." When New Yorker Sullivan was ordered to increase his work output one day, he turned to his foreman and said: "I quit." He spent two weeks in solitary...
...protagonists are ordinary guys desperately trying to fend off the world's idiocies and evils long enough to define themselves and do the decent thing. They rarely succeed completely. Solitary Baseball. The fourth-generation writer in his family, Sheed was ?orn in London, the son of Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed (of the Catholic publishing firm Sheed & Ward). When he was nine, his family moved to Torresdale, Pa., a town not unlike the setting for Pennsylvania Gothic. Finding the literary atmosphere at home oppressive," he plunged passionately into sports. The only trouble was that in lonely Torresdale...
...mood of Czechoslovakia suddenly changed. Resuming operations, the official press, radio and television began to speak of the Russian invaders as "the visiting fraternal forces." Overt opposition all but ended, and most Czechoslovaks did their best to tolerate their unwanted visitors. While they still felt great animosity to ward their occupiers, they nonetheless recognized that since they had not resisted at the moment of the invasion, it was useless to provoke repressive measures by acts of defiance now. As a result, the country began to assume at least a veneer of normality. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath took the measure...