Word: lewisham
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...provides very poor value for money." Slevin says the number of managers in the NHS has grown three times faster than medical staff. French anesthesiologist Françoise Iossifidis has seen both sides of the equation, having worked in Britain for 17 years, the last four at University Hospital Lewisham in southeast London. She acknowledges that change has come slowly in Britain, in contrast to the more flexible French system. But she thinks the Continent and Britain are already learning from each other. As British investment increases, NHS doctors are adopting the more patient-centered approach of her home country...
...course, Wells was too restless to be hemmed in by this or any other doctrine. He used the novel for comedy, satire and what the MacKenzies call "auto-analysis." Love and Mr. Lewisham, Kipps, Tono Bungay and the History of Mr. Polly were all based largely on his own experiences in rising up from the lower-middle class. Anne Veronica (1909), a thesis novel about free love, borrowed shamelessly from his own prolific sex life...
...powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry an English girl. Seretse, even then known as "the black Englishman" to friend and foe alike, was studying law in London in 1947 when he met Ruth Williams, a blonde, 24-year-old insurance clerk who lived with her parents and sister in suburban Lewisham...
...Frankie spent most of his insomnia with Adelle Beatty. Ostensibly in town to introduce Danny Kaye and other stars of Me and the Colonel at a benefit opening, Frankie took her to three parties on three successive evenings, particularly wowed Lady Northampton's guests. "Perfectly adorable," said Lady Lewisham, and Lady Dalrymple-Champneys was so stricken with the Sinatra charm that she gasped: "I'd like him to meet the Duchess of Gloucester...
Heavy fog lay on London, and from Lewisham to Hammersmith, scarcely a car moved. Buses inched along the streets and trains moved cautiously along their rights of way. The 5:18 from Charing Cross to Kent that evening ground to a stop just past St. John's station to wait its turn at Park's Bridge Junction, which Londoners call the "busiest strip of railway line in the world." The electric train's ten coaches were pack-jammed, with more than 1,000 passengers caught up in the confusion of the heaviest pea-souper in two years...