Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process repeats itself several times, with orderlies rushing in to take way each successive charlatan doctor and nurse. The mysteries pile up as the crazies start to crowd Budge and Wyatt's room. What exactly is this "Day Room"? One nurse describes it as a place "where they watch daytime television and throw food." But is she to be believed? She also states that the Day Room is in the "Arno Klein Memorial Wing," but what and where is that? Is Budge to be trusted? Finally, is Wyatt--Mister Normal--to be trusted...
...witch doctor talked about charms and animal sacrifices, Davis' rich, deep Latin poured through the small window of the hut: "Pater noster qui es in coelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum . . ." The laibon explained the uses of animals in his work. He employed the warthog, for example, to cast a spell to keep the government out of Masai business. Good choice, the visitor thought. The warthog is a strutty little beast, a short-legged peasant with a thin tail that stands straight up like a flagpole when it runs. It backs into its hole and pulls dirt on top of itself...
...laibon has been chased by lions many times. The worst attack came one evening when he was walking to another enk'ang to see his girlfriend. (The visitor savored the idea of a witch doctor going to pick up his girlfriend for a date.) The lion stalked and menaced him for a long distance, the laibon jabbing with his spear, the lion never quite attacking...
...third ALS casualty from the 1964 squad -- Fullback Gary Lewis. Both Hazeltine and Lewis died earlier this winter. Waters was stunned. Was it mere coincidence? The disease typically strikes 1 in 50,000 Americans a year, yet it hit three teammates on a 55-man squad. Waters' doctor, Stanley Appel, head of neurology at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, was suspicious too. "Statisticians would tell you that there is still a possibility it's due to chance," he says. "But no matter how you figure it, 3 out of 55 is way out of proportion...
...almost free hand in decision making and in the investment of organization funds. Officials spoke glowingly of the day when party and economic posts would be filled democratically, with more than one candidate competing for every job. A Soviet editor announced that next year Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel, Doctor Zhivago, would be published in the Soviet Union for the first time. While those measures and the freeing of some dissidents gave reason to expect further liberalization, the crackdown on the refuseniks indicated that, as Ambassador Hartman observed, the Soviets have not yet changed their basic view of the relationship...