Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need of rehabilitation. Paint peels from sagging walls. Windows are smashed throughout the complex of 34 buildings, and the heating system is so antiquated that some wards must be shut down entirely in winter because the temperature cannot be pushed above 40°. The ill-ventilated, six-story maternity wing, where 3,500 babies are born each year, does not have a single bath or shower. Sighs Staff Physician William V. McDermott: "This is a hell of a way to run a hospital...
...garrulousness could fuel a new round of conspiracy theories?although conspirators with any skill would hardly have used so light a revolver as a .22. Many found it difficult to believe that the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were unrelated. Some blamed right-wing extremists; others concluded that all three slayings were part of a Communist plot to divide and weaken...
...niece who lives with them in Hyannisport, Mass., did not awaken them. But Rose got up around 6, as usual, to prepare for 7 a.m. Mass. She heard the news then. Joe heard it later when Ted telephoned him. Rose went to St. Francis Xavier Church, where a wing had been built in Joe Jr.'s memory, where a bronze plaque marks the pew that Jack used to occupy, where Bobby once served as an altar boy. Later that day, Cardinal Cushing came to offer what comfort he could. "She has more confidence in Almighty God," he said, "than...
...Some area of the Faculty's jurisdiction is due for a review and a special committee is created to undertake the job for the entire Faculty. The Faculty has, for example, just created a special committee to review Harvard's Development Advisory Service, a wing of the University that sends teams of economists to underdeveloped countries requesting a little intellectual foreign aid. This review may take several years; when it is finished, and its report in, the committee will be dissolved...
...several hundred prospective buyers who strode into a hangar at the Orange County, Calif., Airport last week, the temptation to snap a ghostly salute was nearly irresistible. There, wing to wing, were the great ones of World War I: the DeHavilland D.H.4 Eberhardt S.E. 5a, Nieuport 28, Pfalz D-XII and Fokker D-VII. And right near by sat a green and cream Sopwith Camel-the type that downed the Red Baron-with a cutout figure of that daredevil, Snoopy, as the Baron's fearless foe, everyone surely knows. The occasion: an auction of 29 veteran and vintage planes...