Word: hones
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, for the simple reason that the work is unchallenging compared to most full practices face it," she says, "students are boring. They get mono, they get colds. Once in a great while they get hepatitis. They're mostly in pretty good health, and if you want to hone your professional skills and keep abreast of the profession, you just won't want to work there Harvard has somewhat less trouble than most in attracting good physicians in recent years, McKenna adds because of the increasingly varied community it serves...
...learning for Matthew Star, who is, literally, a space case. Matt (Peter Barton) is, as the opening narration informs, "a typical American teen-ager." It's just that he also happens to hail from Quadris, a distant planet racked by civil war. He has come to earth to hone his telepathic powers in preparation for the day that he and his guardian (the splendid Louis Gossett Jr.) will return home, unseat the usurpers and restore rightful rule to Quadris...
Outside of politics, Baker's greatest passion is photography, a hobby that allows him to hone his skills as a detached observer even during an event like the presidential Inauguration. He is also fascinated by old cars; he owns a 1950 Packard, a 1951 Studebaker, a 1962 Ford convertible and a 1963 Chrysler. (But he is driven to Capitol Hill from his home in northwest Washington, promptly at 8:30 every morning, in the brown Cadillac that is one of the perks of his office...
...life after the Beanpot, the Canadiens sent Nilan to their Nova Scotia farm team in 1979 to hone his skills and then called upon his services in February of that year. He has remained in the NHL ever since. He saw regular action last year, but this year has played sporadically. Yet, when he talks about his stats, you know they are as respectable and by intimidating...
...there is so much to be said for letting the fur fly, for openly acknowledging your enemy and allowing him to have at you with the full force of his puny, flaccid mind. It is even more pleasurable to give than receive, to hone one's words until they gleam, and watch them fly in lovely arcs toward one's fellow creatures. How happy Sir Edward Coke must have been when he told Sir Walter Raleigh: "There never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou." How empty Whistler must have felt...