Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more distinctly. A police car turned up to drive him away, and one cop confided to a bewildered little girl that he was taking Santa into custody at the police station. Unphased, the urchin next to her started reeling off requests for the cop to pass on to his ward with the crooked beard...
...ward doctor in Hurry Tomorrow, a documentary about psychiatric treatment in a state mental hospital, radiates the same uncertain blend of lunacy and expertise. "As soon as a patient stops insisting that he should be released," the doctor explains, "he'll be discharged...
...ward doctor himself, who looks like an authoritarian Alan Watts, admits that "Though we do not over-medicate patients...everybody needs a little to get to sleep." Patients soon forget, or lose interest in, which of their symptoms are drug-induced and which self-produced. One describes experiencing an "atomic war" in his room; most likely it was the heat and intense light of the ward, refracted through a double dosage of thorazine...
...equipment, and the recession discouraged other would-be buyers. As a result, the Information Systems division lost $19.6 million last year. So many managers lost their jobs in trying to turn it around that company employees nicknamed a special group of offices set aside for these executives the "cancer ward." Singer is already selling off a division making water-treatment equipment and a European mail-order business, and it has plans to drop other losing operations. Flavin's most pressing decision will be whether to sell some or all of the data-processing line as well...
...superficial analysis of the election-night returns by Election Commissioner Edward J. Samp. Jr., whose decade-long obstruction of the voting rights of Cambridge students hardly qualifies him as an impartial observer. In fact, well over 1,000 non-native students registered in Cambridge during 1975. Turnout in Ward 6, Precinct 3, a majority of whose voters is composed of Harvard undergraduates, jumped 150 over 1973, one of the largest increases in the city. The preliminary returns indicate that student turnout on election day was, if anything, slightly higher than that citywide...