Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retired vice admiral, and Jimmy of Task Group Alfa). As a crack plebe quarterback, Jimmy Thach showed a remarkable fighting instinct, but he never made the "A" team: a collision with a husky fullback dislocated his shoulder, ended his football days. "What shall I do?" he asked the doctor plaintively. The tongue-in-cheek reply: "Try wrestling." Jimmy Thach did just that, made the wrestling team-and learned to horrify his bigger opponents by throwing his game shoulder out of socket at strategic moments...
Pedal Away. Eagle-faced Dr. Bruno Balke, 51, who began his love affair with mountains while a surgeon with Hitler's Alpine troops, first led his team (one other doctor, five enlisted men) to Fairplay, Colo. (10,000 ft.), for hikes of up to three hours. Then he moved up 1.500 ft. to Hoosier Pass and laid on more hikes, extending eventually to ten hours (15 miles), plus intensive series of knee bends and sprints up steep slopes. By easy stages the team advanced to Evans...
Space & Time. In Justine, Narrator Darley drew what he thought were final conclusions from his own experience: he supplied answers as he saw them to Justine's nymphomania, Nessim's seeming complaisance and incipient madness, Melissa's tortured love. In Balthazar, an all-seeing, cabalistic doctor gives a rude shake to this picture and, as in a kaleidoscope, all the parts fall into radically changed patterns. Darley learns that Justine only pretended to love him, that he was used as a decoy to conceal her passion...
...Realists. In their efforts to keep the good will of French West Africa, the French have sent down much more than money. They have also exported a dedicated group of civil servants and army men. Headed by the soldier-doctor General Pierre Richet, a small team of 25 doctors and 1,200 nurses and technicians move constantly about in mobile medical units, ridding the countryside of sleeping sickness, leprosy, syphilis, crippling yaws and blinding trachoma. In some areas sleeping sickness once afflicted as many as 80% to 97% of the population, killed off one in five of its victims. Today...
...Nature of Heat. One of the greatest exponents of ayurveda is Uttar Pradesh's chief minister, Dr. Sampurnanand. A graduate of Allahabad University, Sampurnanand (who has no first name) majored in mathematics, physics and chemistry, rates the title of doctor only on the strength of honorary degrees collected from fawning provincial universities. Sampurnanand dabbles in ayurveda himself, often prescribing ayurvedic remedies for friends. Four years ago his government set up the State Ayurvedic College in Lucknow, dedicated to the proposition that students should learn both the ayurvedic and Western medical systems...