Word: pharmacist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There isn't any scientific necessity for sterilizing the copies," says Editor Stanley Stein, 52, a onetime Texas pharmacist who has been a Carville patient for 20 years. "We do it only as a gesture of respect to the unconvinced." Stein and the Star make no other concessions to popular prejudice. The fight to ban the word "leper" has been officially won: U.S. health officers are under orders not to use it. Stein and the Star are still battling against the word "leprosy" itself...
Captain Jeff Fisby, an ex-pharmacist from Ohio, neither looked, felt nor behaved like a professional soldier. He was chubby and sloppy, and in his job as administrator of an Okinawan village he was shamelessly inefficient. When it came to carrying out Plan B, a scheme for re-educating the natives, he was a failure...
...President was Juan José Arévalo, who, after the 1944 revolution, had been called to the post from Argentine exile, had confounded the prophets by surviving 28 revolutionary plots and serving out his full six-year term. His successor: Colonel Jacobo Arbenz, 37, son of a Swiss pharmacist, onetime Defense Minister under Arévalo...
...Nose Toward Mecca. These are only a few of the stories of U.S. subs. Battle Submerged and Sink 'Em All are crammed with more, blending the heroic and the ironic. They tell of how Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes of the Seadragon performed the first submerged appendectomy, a success "with the help of God and a long-handled spoon"; of how the Barb's commandos landed in Japan and blew up a train; of how the Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism...
...Hungarian immigrants who moved to Steelville when he was seven, John Zahorsky worked as a pharmacist, file clerk and ladies' wear salesman to pay for his way through Missouri Medical College (since absorbed by Washington University). Within ten years he had set some doctors sniffing with his idea that children's colds were more often caused by contagion than by exposure to bad weather. Soon he was protesting against taking newborn babies from their mothers and massing them in an aseptic nursery...