Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grave Matter. Glad of any honor that might come his town's way, the mayor of Vimoutiers promptly organized a search for Marie Harel's grave. It failed to materialize, but another grave was made to serve as well, and the doctor deposited his flowers. After that everyone joined in a banquet, in the midst of which Dr. Knirim proposed raising a statue of the great Marie, and whipped out a $20 bill to start a fund...
Next morning the good doctor left Vimoutiers, never to return or be heard from again-but the curd he had started fermented after him. Two years later a statue of Marie Harel, or someone who was supposed to be Marie Harel, was unveiled at Vimoutiers by Alexandre Millerand, a former President of the Republic. It soon became a shrine for tourists, and also for local peasants, who often placed flowers at its feet and knelt in prayer for the secrets of properly ripened Camembert. Then, because of a G-2 mistake in World War II, both Marie and a good...
...half of rest, Dick Nixon had a severe case of flu. Todd began dosing Nixon with Achromycin and Mysteclin, spraying his raw throat with cortisone and Pontocaine, urged him to slow down his 15,000-mile swing through the length and breadth of the U.S. More specifically, the doctor begged Nixon to cancel his speech that night in Salt Lake City-but Nixon refused...
This is the story of an American missionary nurse's love affair with Africa. Slim, thirtyish Rachel Cade can take sex or leave it alone, but she is not really interested in it. She quits her first post because a married doctor keeps breathing amorously on her neck. At her next post, Dibela, in the Belgian Congo, the resident doctor dies the night she arrives, leaving her the only white within miles. In short order she climbs the sacred Mountains of the Moon and invites a couple of thahus (curses) from the local medicine men. So there...
...does not stay alone for long, however, because people keep dropping in. First, there is a U.S. doctor named Paul Wilton, the only survivor of a plane crash in the jungle. Since Dibela needs his medical skills, Rachel has a purposeful affair with him, even manages to convince herself that they are in love, and bears his illegitimate child (after he leaves). The next arrival is Caleb Aldrich, a malarial preacher who loves Africa nearly as much as Rachel does, and they both settle down to properly married life among the Bantus-not before hesitant Caleb has been pulled together...