Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White said that the maternity ward angle was more effective than the other two. "Pediatricians are just too busy and mothers with children in school generaaly aren't having babies," he said...
...impossible to conceive of a Doc Watson album that wouldn't be bright enough to ward off an average case of the doldrums, but, as pleasing as this album is, Doc and Merle Watson are capable of much more. That, in itself, is a testimony to their skill, that even a better-than-good album is ordinary for them, and just lively, catchy performances seem too little of a challenge...
...clearest memories is trying to register the birth of my oldest daughter with the local ward office in Tokyo," he says. "They just couldn't understand that all babies born in Japan aren't born to Japanese parents...
...George Ward Byers plays Leonard Charteris, the male apex of the play's triangle, with energy. Caught between two women--an unwanted one who pursues him unrelentingly and a beloved one who affectionately refuses him -- and their bewildered fathers, Byers gracefully prances around the stage sporting engaging facial expressions. But he dandifies his role to the point where it is difficult to understand what the two women could see in him. Lorna Koski, as the woman scorned, strikes the most discordant note in the play. Unsuccessful at portraying Julia's passionate melodramatics, Koski appears to have lost not her decorum...
Disputes over land ownership -some of them caused by opportunistic Moslems who sold the same piece of property to different people-finally erupted into sectarian violence in late 1969. Christian immigrants formed quasi-vigilante groups called Ilagas (rats) to ward off Moslems who were trying to seize land. The Moslems formed terrorist gangs known as Barracudas and Blackshirts. As the communal violence spread, young Moslem intellectuals began to oppose not only the Christian settlers and the government but even their own elderly Moslem leaders, whom they accused of corruption. The young dissidents preached secession...