Then they were helped or carried off to the temporary wards where they could lie down.

Nurse Chapel was already directing a medical tech nician to take the overflow patients to the temporary wards.

"Better convert the temporary wards again, Nurse.

"The stretcher bearers will take them to temporary wards or the shuttle bay after you've treated them."

The best we can do is this: We got a judge to declare these kids temporary wards of the state--for their own protection."

All the 30-bed temporary wards were finished and four of the 40-bed temporary wards were about ninety per cent finished.

Finally, Mr. Blume and his temporary wards found common footing on a patch of narrative ground where every human, it seems, can stand: Let me tell you a story about when I was young, he said, and every young face turned to listen.