Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was hospitalized for quick surgery for lung cancer; doctor's prognosis: he will be away from his desk for a minimum of five or six weeks (acting chairman: General Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff...
...stalks the famous in likely lairs (El Morocco, Toots Shor's, Sardi's, the Colony) until 3 a.m., when he finally sits down to whack out his column before falling into bed at 6 a.m. Said he, on the recent occasion of receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree from Ohio's Wilberforce University: "I know of no other job I would prefer-than to go wherever I want to go, see whomever I want to see, and write whatever I want to write...
...Rugby Club, though not subsidized by the University, is composed of members of both the College and graduate schools. O'Neil, next year's president, is a Dublin, Ireland, doctor, studying on a fellowship at the Medical School. A former Olympic swimmer, he was also amateur boxing champion of Ireland for his weight class...
Pinball prose, grookish goofiness and all, Kerouac's book is a pleasant boyhood novel. Doctor Sax, which was written in 1952, comes from the apparently bottomless hopper that the author had filled before his bestselling On the Road was published. Perhaps because it contains no such adult concerns as marijuana, Zen Buddhism or women to dull his exuberance, it is Kerouac's best book...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...