Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SEVENTY YEARS AGO Boston consisted of several petty fiefdom controlled by ward-level political machines. Martin "Mahatma" Lomasney in the West End, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald in the North End, and James Michael Curley himself, patriarch of the South End, plundered the city despite the efforts of the Good Government reformers, the goo-goos. Frustrated because the dominant Irish voters consistently supported the machines, the goo-goos resorted to state intervention to attack corruption. One of the state-imposed safeguards was the Boston Finance Commission, a watchdog agency consisting of five Boston residents appointed by the governor "to investigate...
...next sessions with Frost he'll talk about his foreign policy triumphs, and try to establish his legacy, his attempt, as he put it, "to build a generation of peace." But Nixon was a hack, not a statesman. He was the ultimate mediocrity, the ad account executive, the ward heeler raised to high office. The only emotion that the interview generates is not pity--Nixon is too warped and amoral for that--but hatred. Let him go east, like Cain, into the land of Nod. In the end, perhaps the best thing that can be said of the interviews...
...another shuffling of the Harvard lineup, Pedroni started on attack with fellow freshman Mike Ward, while the usual regulars, Chico MacKenzie and Pete Predun, moved to midfield...
...crucial first half was all UMass. The visitors roared out to a quick lead on goals by Norm Smith, Terry Keefe and Menna, before MacKenzie and Ward countered for the 17th-ranked Crimson. Then UMass put the game away by ripping of five straight markers and then, after Pedroni got the first of the day, shutting out the Crimson in the second quarter while Spooner and Smith were stretching the bulge...
...Ward, one of the highly touted freshmen who has already been switched from a berth on the first midfield to a reserve attack spot in his short Harvard career, concluded that he's "not afraid of being pulled if he doesn't perform well. "Coach Scalise always tells us the only mistake you can ever really make is not hustling...