Word: warden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dignity on his leadership, which became evident from the moment he was returned to Robben Island. Even on his first arrival, two years before, he had set an example by refusing to obey an order to jog from the harbor, where the ferry docked, to the prison gates. The warden in charge warned him bluntly that unless he started obeying, he might quite simply be killed and that no one on the mainland would ever be the wiser. Whereupon Mandela quietly retorted, "If you so much as lay a hand on me, I will take you to the highest court...
...Harvard students overall are unlikely to vote in Cambridge because most register in their home districts, said Quincy House polling-station warden Annie Scanlan...
According to election workers, low turnout partly stems from a lack of candidate outreach to students. "It's a city election, so generally nobody cares," Gund Hall station warden Bill Willard said. "It's not necessarily apathy. But it's just that nobody gets the word...
Where we live in the summer, there are sometimes bears in the woods. Would it do me any good, while walking through the woods, to wear a Banff National Park warden's uniform? How would I go about obtaining a Banff National Park warden's uniform sufficiently authentic to fool a bear? And would it need to be delivered...
...Beatles were made Members of the Order of the British Empire, insulted Brits returned their own honors to Queen Elizabeth II to protest what they called the system's devaluation. Today, the awards are given to any number of ordinary people who have made significant contributions, such as traffic warden Evelyn Greechan, who bravely booked her local police chief. Greechan won a MBE for services to road safety. No word on whether McCartney might grace the ceremony with a performance of the ditty on Abbey Road that may just have put him over the top for this honor: ?Her Majesty...