Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students trying to raise $6000 to help fund a doctor in India and an urban developer in Indonesia have launched a fundraiser soliciting students and faculty members in the past week...
...sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew. By twelve he had command. Almost nobody could catch his fastball either: he broke one guy's hand, another guy's wrist." Without irony, Gooden's playmates took to calling him Doctor. Dan Gooden believes his son's nickname came from an infielder's chatter: "C'mon, Dr. Dwight, operate on him!" Youmans says, "It was just always Dr. D, or Doc." It evolved naturally into Dr. K, the initial taken from the scorebook shorthand for a strikeout...
...Gregers Werle (Christopher McCann)--who moves in and reorders their lives with disastrous consequences--mingles religious fanaticism with a rich man's easy disdain for money. Fittingly, the production ends without the comfort of catharsis, in a fistfight between the unrepentant Gregers and a neighbor, a drunken but discerning doctor. The incidents come basically from Ibsen, conveyed with a rawness modern audiences rarely see in his work. Even in this highly symbolic play, he makes a harrowing social realist...
Unless scientists can find a way to control the spread of AIDS, the United States should require people in high risk groups to undergo testing for the virus, a Harvard doctor said yesterday...
Wacker also says that doctors occasionally do not see fractures on X-rays if the fractures are very slight, but that as the break heals, calcium forms over the break and reveals the fracture more plainly. This explains why one doctor might miss a fracture, whereas another doctor, who sees a patient a while later, may tell the patient that he has been walking around with a broken limb for a while...