Word: instructing
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Much of the flying doctors' work is preventive. "To be an effective doctor in Africa, you must go to the patients," says Wood. "If you wait for them to come to you, they just die." The doctors and nurses make regular rounds of villages and rural hospitals to instruct people in proper sanitation and nutrition, and to conduct vaccination campaigns. But some of the missions are more urgent. The doctors have flown into the Tanzanian bush to operate on a nun who broke both legs in a fall into a well, performed an airborne operation on a youngster savaged...
...appoint a new prosecutor, he summoned Haig and two of his counsel, J. Fred Buzhardt and Len Garment, to the Oval Office. The discussion, said Haig, was "very painful and anguishing." Confronted with the enormous public demand for impeachment, the President reversed field. He told Buzhardt to instruct Nixon's top tapes counsel, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright, to inform Judge Sirica that he would comply with the judge's decision and turn over the tapes...
...Egyptian and Syrian armed forces. They not only replaced the enormous Arab losses of the 1967 war but delivered hundreds of additional tanks and planes. They gave the Egyptians and Syrians sophisticated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, including the potent SA-6 missile, as well as advisers to instruct the Arabs in their...
Died. Mary Wigman, 86, German pioneer of modern dance; in West Berlin. Wigman vowed to end her career as a dancer at its height, and in 1942 she did. But she continued to instruct dancers at the school she founded in Berlin after her escape from East Germany...
...player to eat dirt or nails or manure, and he does it with the meniality of an army private at the feet of an impenetrable and grizzled sergeant-bastard-god-the-father. Ralph Goldston, who was without a doubt the earthiest most graphic and explicit person ever to instruct a Harvard athlete, who found that Cambridge was a nice place to visit but however to begin, to continue, or ever to consider coaching at. Goldston, a man who never fit into the black atmosphere, who never wanted to create, not tried, nor even recognized the "brother" kinship of blacks...