Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born: July 28, 1904, in West Kirby, near Liverpool; his father was a prosperous doctor of Welsh descent...
...difficulty. For no apparent reason she would take a deep breath and then, as she thought, "stop breathing"; actually, she took shallow breaths on top of what she was holding, finally let all the air out with a giant sigh. Afraid of suffocating, she had spent years going from doctor to doctor, finally quit her work. Last October, a neurologist decided that her trouble was emotional, referred her to Montreal's famed Allan Institute...
...school. For the five weeks before Christmas vacation, Shirley was forced to sit in a classroom by herself, because Principal Ernest K. White disapproved of her corduroy slacks. When her parents argued that Shirley wore slacks because of a leg operation, White replied that he wanted to see a doctor's affidavit. The school board turned down an appeal from the Richardsons' attorney...
...said to make will be a lie, or the result of human weakness." With these last words to his spiritual principality, the cardinal (Alec Guinness) submits to arrest by the secret police. He is charged with treason and remanded for interrogation to a brilliant political fanatic, a doctor (Jack Hawkins) with whom he had worked in the anti-Nazi resistance during World...
...national monument," the doctor tells him. "That monument must be ... defaced." The method: "I intend to find his weakness and use it to destroy him." In a word: brainwash...