Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agony all through an interview with the Vice President." Ex-pharmacist Humphrey rushed to his medicine chest in the tail of the plane and produced a pill. "Take this," he said. "It will relax the spasm in your esophageal tract." It did. Later, Lamont's doctor confirmed the Humphrey diagnosis...
...Julia wants to resume her nursing career. She phones a physician and is immediately offered an interview. But she wavers. "Oh," she asks, "did they tell you I'm colored?" "Mm," he replies, "what color are you?" "Wh-hy, I'm Negro." "Oh," says the doctor. "Have you always been a Negro, or are you just trying to be fashionable...
Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney, chairman of the Council's nationwide search for a new manager, objected that a "sick man goes to the finest doctor he can get, not to an old friend." Danehy then shot back, "This is not a medical show...
...Named for the doctor who accidentally helped to open the door to research in brain chemistry in 1928 by discovering that overdoses of insulin can drastically alter the course of some mental illnesses...
...more aware of this than Portnoy himself. In one of his many hysterical bursts of insight, he cries that he is "torn by desires that are repugnant to my conscience, and a conscience repugnant to my desires." He views himself as the victim in a grim Jewish joke. "Doctor, Doctor," he pleads, "please. I can't live any more in a world given all its meaning and dimension by some vulgar nightclub clown. By some-some black humorist! Because that's who the black humorists are-of course!-the Henny Young-mans breaking them up down there...