Word: chico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months later he was transferred to Chico, Calif, (pop: 5,500) over his protests that it was "Siberia." The bank also wrangled with its intransigent clerk over a $15.12 expense account (the bank eventually paid). Soon Clerk Washer was fired. The NLRB ordered him reinstated...
...President Batista patted him on the back, called him "Chico, great lover...
Some of the delegates came from such far places as Chico, Calif, and Quonset Point, R.I. Among them were some of the most famed hot pilots of hot ships. Marine Corps Major Joe Foss (26 Jap victims; Congressional Medal) arrived in a Grumman F4F. Major John Smith (19 victories; Congressional Medal) came in a Corsair. Navy Lieut. Stanley Vejtasa (ten victories; Navy Cross with two stars) dropped down in an F6F. Major Vincent ("Squeak") Burnett, champion stunt flyer and specialist in B-26 bombers, dusted in with one of the sleek Marauders...
...last May Special Agent Joseph Williams of the California State Board of Medical Examiners went to Chico to investigate irregularities in another doctor's prescriptions. By chance, as he plowed through drugstore records, he also noticed something queer about Dr. Phillips' prescriptions. Medically they were perfect. But they were signed J. H. Phillips instead of James H. Phillips...
When his full record was revealed (last fortnight the A.M.A. Journal printed it with reluctant admiration), his Chico colleagues were dazed. "How he was able to perform all those operations successfully is what has us baffled," murmured one doctor uncomfortably. Said others: "The man's got something besides guts." Phillips piled the nervous strain of imposture atop the nervous strain of surgery which exhausts many accredited surgeons. But so far not one of the scores of patients whom Phillips cut open has complained of the quality of his work...