Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dirksen finished the debate off by revealing how low the Morse attack had fallen. Morse, he said (and Morse later verified it), called Mrs. Luce's physician in New York in an attempt to find out whether she had ever been under psychiatric care. Dirksen, quoting the doctor, said: "She-isn't and wasn...
...best) in the attic on rainy days with a .22. One winter, while crust riding downhill on his sled, he lost control, rammed head first into a stone wall. Unshaken, he would have gone calmly back up for another slide had not friends persuaded him to go to the doctor-who took six stitches to close the gap. Thenceforth...
Submariners have another safety valve for pent-up emotions: a readily available doctor, the only nondisciplinarian aboard (and soon to come, a chaplain-see RELIGION). In his own seagoing days, Captain Alvis used to tour his submarine once every four hours: "The doctor becomes a sort of substitute father. Crewmen talk to him about things they wouldn't think of discussing with a line officer. In this way they get a real chance to ventilate their problems." Submariners can also be sure of recognition. Many enlisted men become officers; many officers become admirals...
...while others are still at the one-drink stage. Soon he gets drunk whenever he drinks, even against his wishes. Next he thinks often about drinking, its balm to life's stresses, begins drinking through the weekend and taking Monday off from his job to recuperate. Though a doctor who knows him well may spot such telltale symptoms early, "all too often the patient is unwilling to see or unwilling to admit that as yet his drinking is a problem...
...Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally admit to himself that he is really "drunk." It is hard to deny; he can no longer control his behavior, is beset by marriage, money and job crises. His main problem is accepting a doctor's diagnosis: alcoholism...