Word: exclaimers
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Whether the patient actually has heart trouble or not, the doctor can make him think he has by listening too long to the stethoscopic murmurings. And if there is something wrong, said Dr. Mills, the physician must still be careful not to exclaim "I never saw a worse heart!" Finally, there are the cases where a doctor misinterprets the symptoms or the results of his own examination. The one thing that all "iatrogenic" (doctor-caused) heart troubles have in common, said Dr. Mills, is that they are preventable...
...Mark Fallon, the therapeutic gambler who gives a rapid fire Freudian analysis between kisses to Angelica Durean (Piper Laurie), Tyrone Power is insufferable enough to have even his love exclaim, "you egotistical ass." Having Piper Laurie around is never unpleasant, but if you come to see her act you had better stay at home. Probably the most creditable actress is Julia Adams, whose unrequited love of Fallon has moments of convincing tenderness...
...sinks a long putt, she is apt to fall to her knees and praise Allah; when she misses a short one, she may exclaim, "I feel like nuts & bolts rattling together." On a hot day, she once gathered a circle of women around her on the golf course while she shed her petticoat; another time she startled the gallery with a highland fling. She once insisted on being paid her tournament money in one-dollar bills ("It makes me feel richer"). She operates like a woman whose life is a constant campaign to astound people...
...better than a three-ring circus," one wife, stopped while she was dashing from old fame to family, was heard to exclaim. A junior son passed up a chance to go to the ball game just to sit agape at the eight of his father hugging old comrades in cups...
...civil war. She went to India, where she was interned as an enemy alien. And she went to The Netherlands, where she set up a new training center. Wherever she went, her message was always the same. "You must fight for the rights of the child," she would exclaim, and hundreds of educators were still inspired to take...