Word: wards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worse than having a baby." It was also emotionally unsettling. One nurse in Kings County Hospital made a point of telling her "what a pretty little boy" had just been aborted, though Valada had asked not to be told the fetus' sex. Mothers in the maternity ward, where she was sent to recover, treated her like a pariah. 'They would just look at me." said Valada. "and the looks could tell me what they were thinking...
...many unwanted pregnancies happen, even among the most educated and sophisticated. Subconsciously, many may want to become pregnant, according to Dr. Lawrence Downs, a Manhattan psychiatrist, who, in collaboration with Psychologist David Clayson, has been studying women selected at random at New York Hospital's therapeutic-abortion ward. Downs found that at least one-quarter of the first 108 women studied had suffered psychiatric problems in the previous two years; more than half had lost a parent or close relative during the past year. A slim majority said that members of their families had recently undergone hysterectomies, or that...
White won nine wards as compared with only one ward in 1967. He did surprisingly well in Italian-American East Boston and also in Roxbury where--despite the campaign of Black Councilman Atkins--he captured 40 per cent of the black vote. The elderly, who constitute 25 per cent of the Boston electorate, also supported him heavily...
White won nine wards as compared with only one ward in 1967. He did surprisingly well in Italian-American East Boston and also in Roxbury where--despite the campaign of Black Councilman Atkins--he captured 40 per cent of the black vote. The elderly, who constitute 25 per cent of the Boston electorate, also supported him heavily...
...Cambridge Election Commission is composed of four commissioners. Two, Andrew T. Trodden and Francis Burns, are appointed by the Democratic ward chiefs, and two others, Constance Milton and Edward J. Samp Jr., by the Republican equivalent. It is somewhat difficult to understand how a commission with no direct authority from City Hall itself is entitled to determine who is to be enfranchised and who is not, but that has been precisely the case...