Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Thomas Atkins, the black councillor from Roxbury, or Joe Timilty, who lives in Mattapan, or Jerry O'Leary, from South Boston, or Louise Day Hicks were going to vote for that proposal. The Council is chosen in an at-large election, but on Monday it was ward politics that were talking, and ward politics demand a certain amount of fence-sitting...
...Ward-Heelers and Political Hacks
...Some of the manuscripts that were circulating privately were brought out of the country by travelers. The secret police planted others with publishers in an attempt to manufacture a criminal case against Solzhenitsyn under the Soviet law that forbids an author to disseminate "anti-Soviet literature." Since 1968, Cancer Ward and other works forbidden in Russia have become bestsellers in the West despite Solzhenitsyn's vehement public protests against their publication...
When I pointed out that there were probably three or four hundred graduate students in my ward alone, that most could be expected to feel as I do about the Shea Bill, and that we would remember this when we next got inside a voting booth, Senator McCann was singularly unperturbed. He bad been in this business sixteen years, he said, and the "so-called Harvard group" had never made much difference in his political career...
...samples will then be sent to a private laboratory for analyses. Results will be available from the "Turn Off telephone service" -a 24-hour drug counseling service which will operate from the psychiatric ward of Boston City Hospital...