Word: wards
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...operation, Thomas had been an engineer and inventor who held patents on the Land camera. After the operation, in 1968, a Veterans Administration hospital declared Thomas totally disabled for the first time in his life. In 1971, the courts declared Thomas an incompetent and his mother became his legal ward. Thomas has been hospitalized four times since the operation, the most recent for attacking his father...
...final operatic performances. Changing times had made the Academy as outdated as the hobble skirt. Manhattan had taken over as the focal point for the arts in New York City; the Depression and a decline in the surrounding neighborhoods had turned the institution, economically, into a ward of the city. A decade ago, it was dozing along mostly with lectures and film programs...
...taped conversation with officials of the U.S. Department of Justice in 1969, Cain admitted that his Mafia and police careers were inextricably linked. Through the influence of a Democratic politician in Chicago's inner city First Ward, he got a job as a detective in 1956. He soon became the Mob's bag man in the police department, paying off detectives to insure freedom of operation. He was finally compelled to quit the force in 1960, when he and another detective were discovered wiretapping the offices of Mayor Richard Daley's Commissioner of Investigations to secure possibly...
Striking at Lenin. The power and substance of Solzhenitsyn's condemnation seemed likely to bring down the Kremlin's wrath on the already beleaguered author (see BOOKS). In contrast to his novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Cancer Ward and The First Circle, which dealt only with Stalin's terror, Gulag strikes out at the officially idolized figure of Lenin. Solzhenitsyn rejects the Kremlin's thesis that Stalin alone was responsible for the "excesses" of his time. Instead, Solzhenitsyn devastatingly demonstrates that the imprisonment of millions under Stalin was made possible...
Screenplay by DAVID S. WARD...