Word: doc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to Herbert Itkin, an FBI informant, Voloshen worked both for and against the Haitian government of François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. In 1963, Voloshen offered to persuade Congressmen to speak against continuance of U.S. aid to Haiti, for a fee of $5,000 per legislator. A year later, for a retainer from the Haitian government, Voloshen said he would invoke his influence to speed $4,500,000 in U.S. funds to build a Haitian airport. Itkin reported the scheme to U.S. officials, and the funds were immediately frozen, depriving Voloshen...
...with the vengeance and self-righteousness of a whore gone straight. He had himself been a famous poacher until he was injured in a fall while trapping beaver illegally; the injury has forced him into honest work and accepting wages from a society that he sees as basically corrupt. Doc Mechling, a wealthy physician from the nearby town of Sixes, refuses to help trap the poacher because he believes that one man's guilt is inconsequential compared with the monstrous shame of modern times, with its "computers ticking, tapes and circuits and warheads, detonators, deaths, millions of deaths." Jack...
...second row are the flight surgeon (whose shorthand designation is "Surgeon," never "Doc"), and the spacecraft communicator, or "Capcom." White dots sliding across the surgeon's console screen indicate heart and respiration rate's of the astronauts. Capcom, always an astronaut himself, handles all communication with the crew, giving the men who are deep in space a direct link with one of their own. Only in emergencies does anyone else take the microphone. There were none with Apollo...
...walked into a campus store and the fellow behind the counter knew who I was right off. That was a good feeling." The fellows on the swimming team also knew only too well who Spitz was; his reputation as a taciturn loner had preceded him. But Coach James ("Doc") Counsilman wisely called his charges together and made sure that they gave Mark a fair shake...
...join many other college generations in giving thanks for this supreme teacher, supreme conductor, supreme human being--G. Wallace Woodworth, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, B.A., M.A., Mus. Doc., Litt. D. He was all of this--triumphantly. But most important, was Woody. His favorite novelist, Joseph Conrad, once wrote that "a man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reasons of respect or natural love." In Woody's case, it was both...