Word: wards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simple man who blundered into masterpieces. His innocence was not wholly feigned; in an industry renowned for double-dealing. Ford did not know the meaning of hypocrisy. Did his heroes exalt the virtues of loyalty? So did the man who became known as "Pappy." He used such players as Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen and Harry Carey Jr. so frequently that they became known as the Ford Stock Company. Did his leading men exhibit an austere devotion to their wimmenfolk? The devout Catholic took particular pride in his long marriage to an Irish sweetheart, Mary McBryde Smith. Were Ford characters patriots...
...bandit armed with a pistol entered the New York City office of a woman psychiatrist not long ago and robbed her. As he backed out the door he fired a shot, grazing the doctor on the head. Thrown into severe shock, she was taken to an emergency ward where the doctor on duty, trying to learn whether there had been brain damage, asked her: "Whom do Ehrlichman and Haldeman hate most...
...retired professor of international politics, while mowing his lawn recently in Washington, D.C., suffered severe shock when he became entangled in the live wires of his electric lawn mower. When he regained consciousness in the emergency ward, he did not know how many children he had, or recall that he was supposed to make a trip to California the next...
...dorms ringing the Quad was unanimously approved by the South House Committee, and seemed likely to win approval over the Hunt Hall plan. However, short of capital funds, the University's decision in favor of the demolition of Hunt, was made by the man who put up the money--Ward M. Canaday '07, a Toledo, Ohio automobile magnate, who gave $3 million...
...Ward 402, Glasser's cause is not really euthanasia as such but a fashionable skepticism about progress in general. By focusing on chronic diseases, the book mixes up the anguished, specific personal dilemma of the hopelessly ill and their families with a general social crisis in American medicine. There are hard decisions to be made (TIME, July 16) about when a patient really ceases to live though he is technically still alive, as well as about staggering costs, medical needs and, indeed, the requirements of pure humanity. Such subjects, though, demand either a straightforward, rigorous, get-the-whole-story...