Word: warded
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...earliest stargazers, the planet Mars was a fearful omen suspended in the sky. The Babylonians took its strange reddish hue as a warning of bloodshed and fire, and the ancient Syrians sought to ward off such evils with human sacrifices. The Greeks, who called it Ares, and the Romans, to whom it was Mars, both regarded it as the god of war. To this day, the martial shield and spear remain the symbol for the red planet...
Some of Detroit's blacks and Polish Americans, rep resenting the city's largest minorities, are coming to gether, somewhat gingerly, to push for a ward system of elect ingcity council members, who are now elected at large...
...been economic. At its peak in 1966, Apollo employed 400,000 people, from Long Island to Seattle. The technological impact has been less conspicuous. But in scarcely more than a decade, research has produced hundreds of what NASA calls "space technology transfers" that apply everywhere from factory to surgical ward...
This year, the hospital gave the "Harvard volunteers" a building, and let us set up our own ward. As it is nearing its end, a good many of its patients will not be returning to their old wards. There is the woman who just began to confide in others about "her problem," but clings to the idea that she is "not ready for rehabilitation." And then there is the man who couldn't hear (he threw away his hearing aid). No one thought we could do much for him. but after many ping pong matches he began to hear questions...
...following stories/impressions are results of a project for volunteers to see what it is like to live on a ward. The first is an account of a chronic, the second of an admitting ward. The latter is one where patients typically are coming and leaving all the time. The former is a ward filled with people who have not been helped by the efforts of many different people; and yet they are by no means forgotten, and a fair number of them can and do leave the hospital...