Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scurried about removing dead trees, filling potholes and handing out shiny new garbage cans to voters. On primary election day, Democratic-machine lieutenants stood two and three abreast at street corners on the predominantly black West Side to steer people to the polls. Assistant precinct captains in the 31st Ward solicitously helped voters find parking places and brushed the snow from their windshields. Ward heelers elsewhere rounded up the elderly, the infirm and even the West Madison Street derelicts and took them to the voting booths. In these and other ways, Chicago's 25,000 or so patronage workers...
...trio, only Singer has any chance to oust Daley, and even his remains an outside one. Singer is a liberal attorney who was elected to the city council from a machine ward on Chicago's well-to-do Near North Side in 1969. He established himself as leader of the city's antimachine Democrats and in 1972 headed the rebellious group that unseated Daley's delegates at the Democratic National Convention. In his campaign for mayor, Singer has put together a surprisingly strong grass-roots organization. He raised more than $600,000 and launched a TV advertising...
...choice of Margaret Thatcher is the greatest gamble in the history of the Tory Party," said one former Conservative Cabinet minister. "We will either win magnificently or lose disastrously. I see nothing in between." Her right-ward-ho spirit might have more appeal to voters weary of social and economic complexities than her liberal colleagues imagine. But to hedge the bet, they are already taking measures to prevent Mrs. Thatcher from stacking her shadow cabinet with fellow right-wingers...
...fetus is implicit in any abortion; the prosecution charged that abortion means only the termination of pregnancy and does not necessarily imply the death of the fetus as well. Conflicting evidence was presented on whether the fetus involved in the specific abortion was viable. Dr. John B. Ward, a Pittsburgh pathologist, testified for the prosecution that his postmortem examination had revealed that the fetus had breathed and that the unborn infant, which weighed 700 grams (1 lb. 8 oz.), could have survived. Defense witnesses said that the fetus had not in fact breathed; on Edelin's behalf, some medical...
...problem of shifting the South House undergraduates to the Yard had its origins in the insistence of Ward M. Canaday '07 that his dorm be built in the Yard and not at Radcliffe, as the University requested...