Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Francis Trudeau fell ill in New York with tuberculosis, the disease was still a deadly mystery, romanticized in such plays as La Dame aux Cornelias, but dreaded by its victims and misunderstood by helpless doctors. That was in 1865, and since there were no nurses trained to care for TB victims, Francis Trudeau's 16-year-old younger brother Edward took over the task of sitting with him in a stuffy, tightly sealed room and administering useless cough medicines for four months until Francis died...
...hunting story doubles on its tracks even more than necessary to follow a slow-footed beast. It is no longer news that Russians (then or now) have trouble getting overcoats, and rich characters who keep predatory birds about the house are perhaps a bit too special to care much about. However, the reader will also sense that in all six stories something more important than bears, hawks and overcoats is being talked about. His feelings may focus on the sea story, Billy Budd. If he has seen the film The Caine Mutiny and read the novel, he may become aware...
Most of the doctors make such small salaries from government hospitals and the laborers' free-care institutes that they maintain private practices on the side. But with Brazil's spectacular rise in the cost of living, working-class sick or injured now flock to the free-care centers and private practice has sagged...
...last 18 years, Eddie Noonan has been on the side of everybody from Dick Clasby to the greenest freshman athlete in Dillon Field House. This is partly because Noonan makes mental health and team morale his responsibility in the care of Harvard's athletes, but primarily because he is naturally friendly and interested in the players...
...story of Frank White is one that has impressed Noonan, who remembers treating him for a back injury sustained as a schoolboy. Doctors had predicted that it would prevent White from further contact sports, but his determination to play football and the expert care of Noonan more than upset predictions...