Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted graduates was Dr. Rudolph Matas, born of Spanish parents in nearby Bonnet Carre. When the surgery chair was vacant in 1894, there was talk of importing a Johns Hopkins man, but the New Orleans press staged an unprecedented campaign: "Matas and Matas only!" "Call for Matas." The outrage was averted, and in 33 years goateed Dr. Matas raised Tulane's banner high. He was one of the first surgeons to operate behind a screen of sheets soaked in carbolic acid in an effort to achieve sterile conditions, one of the first to use drip infusions (such as sugar...
...with what British critics like to call the thundering hooves of the tosh-horse...
...water, that seaweed and mussels will keep a spark of life in bodies so frozen that toes fall off without giving pain. And when Chips, the ship's carpenter, dies, they find that his flesh can be eaten with an easy conscience, once they have decided to call it beef...
...danger is that conferences will be used, not to reach decisions, but to put them off. When a man runs up against a sticky problem there is always the temptation for him to appoint a committee or call a conference to get him off the hook. Says New York Management Consultant Everett Smith: "The average individual is as happy as a clam to hide behind a committee." A variation of the decision-postponing conference is the loaded conference. This is called after an executive has already buttonholed the conferees, thus assured himself that they are in agreement with him. Then...
Whitmore advises Vic that "a good Christian fights it off." Vic is staggered. "How?" Says Whitmore: "He gets another woman." Says Mature indignantly: "I call that real sneaky." He much prefers to leave the colonel in a bear pit for the Indians to find. However, the script hauls him out just in time to lead the final charge-an exceptionally bloody bore...