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Word: doctorings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Check to make sure your underwear is ironed. What if you got into an accident and the doctor saw that you were wearing wrinkled underwear...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: No Time to Study | 12/16/1986 | See Source »

According to all contemporary newspaper accounts and subsequent histories, King George V of Great Britain died of natural causes in 1936. Last week the - biographer of Lord Dawson, who was the King's doctor, disclosed that the monarch was actually put to death by lethal injections of morphine and cocaine, administered as he lay dying at the royal residence of Sandringham. Dawson's notes say the King's death was induced not only to ease his pain but to enable the news to make the morning papers, "rather than the less appropriate evening journals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Royal Mercy Killing | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Soon we're introduced to Alexander's household: his neurotic wife (Susan Fleetwood); their pristine daughter (Fillipa Franzen); the cold-blooded family doctor (Sven Wollter); and the servant girls, Julia (Valerie Mairesse) and Maria (Gudrun Gisladottir). They're like refugees from A Dream Play, and the house exudes the acoustic sterility of an undisturbed stageset in a bombed-out theatre; the hardwood floors click too loudly, the furniture looks placed, the china is more for display than use. It's the House of Usher waiting for a match...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: A Brilliant Sacrifice | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

Rosoff, who is a teaching doctor at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital, said in court that he examined Thrope twice in three weeks and felt no lump...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Harvard Doctor to Pay $1.8M in Negligence Suit | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...mail came the year's most original movie tie-in: a red plastic visor with a 4-in. protruding, well, sort of asparagus stalk. "Fun Facts and Myths About the Pineal Gland (The Gland of the '80s)" reads the press release. "Mad Doctor Edward Pretorious' invention stimulates the pineal gland and causes it to protrude and take on a personality of its own -- much like your official From Beyond Pineal Gland Visor . . . Wear it anywhere: the ballpark, parties, the shower (it's waterproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bloody Good From Beyond | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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