Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skirmish, a sequel to a talk-of-the-town scandal. The battlers: Dr. Gabriel Quadros, 67, father of Sāo Paulo's Governor Jãnio Quadros, and José Guerreiro, 32, whose 25-year-old wife ran away with the old doctor a few weeks ago. Crowed Dr. Quadros, clearly the victor: "That woman is mine, and she will remain mine!" Muttered Guerreiro: "He can have that obscenity!" Sad-eyed Governor Quadros dismissed the street brawl as "none of my business," but he saw to it that his embarrassingly spry father was quietly nudged...
...Born the same year as Shakespeare (1564), Marlowe managed, in a short life, to write some fine lyric poetry ("Come live with me and be my love"), a long narrative poem (Hero and Leander), and four superb poetic dramas: Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II. A militant atheist, in flight from arrest, he was killed at 29 during a drunken brawl in a riverside tavern near London, probably a political victim of Queen Elizabeth's Secret Service...
...Point Four funds-the government's new Department of Health Building. At Ajlun, 30 miles to the north, the hero was Baptist Missionary Lloyd Lovegren of Birmingham, Ala., who talked a mob that had already burned two mission buildings out of putting his hospital to the match. The doctor's father, Dr. Levi Lovegren, who was released last fall from four years' imprisonment in Communist China, was one of the inmates whose life he saved...
...figure skating champion struck a hole in the ice and hit her right leg above the ankle with the point of a skate. Her doctor predicted that she would be able to resume practice in four or five days...
...some kids from the audience and had them sit on chairs for a while but not a very long while because it turned out the chairs were all wired to be hot seats. Then Dr. Jekyll asked one of the kids to come up. "What's your name?" the doctor asked genially. "David." A wit in the audience kept shouting "David Crockett" while Dr. Jekyll made the boy itch, genially explaining, "It all comes from what we call nerve control." Suddenly Dr. Jekyll's assistant sprinted out on stage chasing something. Then the lights went out and all the kids...