Word: wards
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heard the news as I stood outside the patients' ward of the field hospital at Camp Ramadi five days later. Three had been killed by a roadside bomb, we were told. McClung was among them. I had seen her briefly only the day before, and we had plans to meet that afternoon. But it was very late at night when I finally saw her resting in the morgue alongside her slain comrades, Spc. Vincent Pomante and Capt. Travis Patriquin. I watched at the edge of the room as the medics unzipped the body bags one by one before stepping forward...
...tone, were highly unusual. The former North Carolina Senator and Vice-Presidential nominee flew from his home in Raleigh to spend three days in New Orleans, without his family, volunteering at a food bank and then dumping dirt in the yard of a house in the Ninth Ward area of the city that was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. On the third day, dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, and standing in the muddy backyard of that same home in the Ninth Ward, Edwards declared he was running for President...
...Hampshire passed the puck around, then shot it toward net. Harvard’s Christina Kessler, who had 33 saves overall, was screened from seeing the puck, which slipped past her for Hitchcock’s second goal of the game. Martine Garland and Sadie Wright-Ward got their 14th and 15th assists on the play.“I was screened,” Kessler said. “I caught a glimpse of it, but it wasn’t enough to keep it from going in.”Although the final period saw a push from...
...blame squarely on Mahdi Army operatives from outside the neighborhood, militants who U.S. soldiers say are out to turn Washash into a Shi'ite bastion for al-Sadr on the west side of the Tigris. "Ninety percent of the problem comes from outside in," says 2nd Lieut. Graham Ward, an Army platoon leader who spends many days patrolling house to house on foot in the Washash area. "All fingers point to Sadr City...
...Dealing with the still rampant stigma over HIV remains a challenge as well. "The nurses scold me for 'talking too loud about HIV' while I'm [on rounds seeing patients]," Sarah Kim writes a month after arriving in Lesotho. "Sometimes I feel like saying, 'well the majority of this ward is positive so we have to talk about it!' But I realize that I shouldn...