Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Janeway said he would use most of the money to improve the facilities and equipment for research at the Children's Hospital Medical Center, where he is physician-in-chief. He added that some of the money would probably be used to speed the implementation of new methods in child health case...
When I interviewed Dr. Quigley, he told me that the team physicians don't do the coaching and that the coaches don't practice medicine. Therefore, when I revealed that Harvard coaches this season have in fact taught a modified type of spearing, I relied not on any physician's statement but on the following detalled account of All-Ivy guard Jerry Hevern...
When she is not singing, she is talking. Speech, no less than song, pours out of her with the impetus of a natural force?gossip and insights, shopping lists and philosophy, sly jokes and probing questions. Once, her physician told her that she needed a tetanus shot. "What will happen if I don't take it?" she asked. "You might not be able to talk for a few days," he said. "Quick," she cried, "give me the shot...
...trip doesn't go very well. Bodies begin to accumulate in novel ways. Midway through the book, Marlowe, the film company's doctor, turns out to be a British treasury agent as well as a physician. Nazi gold is involved, and guilt for long-ago deaths. Amid the systematic carnage, the reader begins to think of the film version of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians...
Here are all the ingredients for a standard shocker. Still, Updike handles his characters with a combination of controlled repugnance and tolerance that results in some very close readings of their emotional fevers. His style does not preclude tenderness, kindness or sensitivity, although he often seems like an experienced physician smoothly examining a naked patient. The effect is a fascination that distracts the mind from predictability of both plot and retribution. The end finds Rabbit and Janice joining up once again with the cold, metallic precision of a lunar landing vehicle docking with its command module after a mission...