Word: wards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only thing Bok seems sure of is his desire to have the Masters draw up "some thought-out policy" on cohabitation at Harvard, so that he can use it to ward off letters from parents who are worried that he is not acting in loco well enough...
...brawls, eventually arresting dozens of blacks. The dramatic third incident, the most significant though least violent, took place on the flight deck of the carrier Constellation. Charging "calculated racism," 120 black sailors and 12 white shipmates staged a sit-down strike in an effort to confront ship commander J.D. Ward. Ward, a member of the old school of navy discipline, refused even to speak with them. Instead, he called a general muster of all hands, surrounding the demonstrators with thousands of white sailors...
...Rally. To force the integration of local hospitals in the mid-'60s, Hobson one day walked into an all-white ward in the Washington Hospital Center and calmly climbed into an empty bed. That stunt won him a brief stint in jail-but also the eventual integration of the hospital. If his bluster was good, his bluff was even better. Perhaps Hobson's most famous episode was the great rat scare. To dramatize the rodent problem in ghetto housing, he threatened almost daily to release hundreds of rats in fashionable Georgetown. He drove through Washington's black...
...part series, "Our Thalidomide Children." The stories, which began appearing in September, were sharply angled against Distillers and condemned the protracted battle as a "national shame." Distillers' latest offer to establish an $8,000,000 trust fund for all victims would, the paper claimed, "probably be insufficient to ward off simple destitution" for the most severely deformed; the paper argued that an inadequate compensation settlement "would rank as one of the worst single failures of the English legal system...
...crew-joined by twelve whites-staged a sitdown at sea. Explained Radarman Third Class Lonnie Brown, 23: "We wanted to air our views and tell the captain what was actually happening. We had to get the word across to the man who runs the ship." But Captain J.D. Ward refused to see the men. Instead he called for a general muster, and the blacks were suddenly surrounded by thousands of whites. Later they were put off the ship at San Diego for "counsel." When the carrier returned from maneuvers to pick them up, the men refused to board. They staged...