Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something themselves: Edgar and Dwight Eisenhower have always fought for the sheer joy of slugging-but when blood poisoning set in after High-Schooler Dwight fell and hurt his knee back in Abilene, Kans., it was Edgar who stayed two days and nights at his bedside and prevented a doctor from amputating...
Ever since Britain nationalized its health services in 1948, doctors have been happy over the fact that they do not have to bother sending and collecting bills. But they have been sharply discontented about their own pay. Of the nation's 40,000 doctors, all but 700 signed up for the National Health Service; 18,000 work full time in hospitals, more than 21,000 as family doctors. The family doctors serve patients (up to 3,500 on a single doctor's panel) for a fixed per-capita fee, paid by the state, of $2.38 a year regardless...
...part of your case," said Barrister Lawrence, "that stopping a drug like morphia or heroin will cause illness and suffering?" "Yes," said the doctor...
...case of an old woman verging on 81 it might very well cause collapse?" "Yes," said the doctor...
...that this gesture must not be interpreted as a sign of guilt, the jury of ten men and two women took less than an hour to return its verdict on Defendant John Bodkin Adams-not guilty. With a suggestion of happy tears brimming in his bespectacled eyes, the pudgy doctor drove away from the court to the offices of the Daily Express, presumably to iron out the details of the Beaverbrook paper's purchase (for a reported $14,000) of his life story...