Word: doc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gang instead of the army. The army's chief of staff, General Jean-René Boucicaut, worried for his own safety, fled with his wife and children to asylum in the Venezuelan embassy. Swearing in a replacement, his fifth army boss in as many years, "Papa Doc," as Duvalier likes to be called, blandly announced that the 44-year-old Boucicaut had reached "the age of retirement...
...only customer. Then, aware that bomb testing might have a limited future, the three partners decided to spread out. They hired their own auditors and lawyers, as well as buyers and salesmen, marketed commercial equipment based on 64 patents held among the three partners. Ebullient "Doc" Edgerton, who still teaches at M.I.T., developed an underwater light and camera that functions at depths as great as seven miles, tested it on seven cruises with famed French Marine Explorer Jacques Cousteau (TIME cover, March 28, 1960). And E.G. & G. even found a foreign buyer for its nuclear-testing equipment. Contacted...
Right, says the program's voice of doc umentary authority. "A short circuit of the emotions prevents the promiscuous person from enjoying really meaningful relationships." That is about as deep as the diagnosis goes, although at the end of all Purex shows there is a sort of analytical epilogue featuring guests with responsible-sounding names and six-inch titles. This week's visitor is Dr. Aaron Rutledge, whose billing is "Director of the American Association of Marriage Counselors and Head of the Counseling and Psychotherapy Program at the Merrill-Palmer School in Detroit." His wisdom will be seined...
...forthright expression marked the course of his life. Born in Shanghai, his father was a geographer, his mother an illiterate peasant (who chose his wife for him when he was eleven). Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy, won a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"). He went on to study at Columbia under the pragmatic philosopher John Dewey and became one of his outstanding disciples. Hu Shih once said that philosophy was his profession, literature his entertainment, politics his obligation. Literature was much more than just enjoyment: on his return to China in 1917, he crusaded...
Thorndike began treating Crimson football and hockey players in 1926 and became known to thousands of Harvard alumni as "the doc who ran onto the of honor (Harvard Stadium) to the wounded...