Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School James Duesenberry, Economics Samuel Huntington, Government Nathan Keyfitz, Sociology Stephen Marglin, Economics John Montgomery, Kennedy School Richard Musgrave, Economics Dwight Perkings, Economics Thomas Schelling, Kennedy School Peter Timmer, School of Public Health Raymond Vernon, Business School David Maybury-Lewis, Anthropology HIID Institute Fellows Clive Gray Richard Mallon Marguerite Robinson Michael Roemer Donald Warwick Lester E. Gordon, Director of HIID Glenn Jenkins, HIID Institute Associate David Cole, HIID Rural Development Coordinator
...Annie Robinson, 58, needed an operation to remove the parathyroid glands in the front of her neck. Virginia Edmondson, 54, needed cartilage removed from the vertebrae at the back of her neck. On the same morning at Philadelphia's Graduate Hospital, doctors somehow mixed up the two women and started performing the vertebrae operation on the parathyroid patient and vice versa...
...investigating the incident, and saying little. But its spokesman did report that both doctors spotted the error in mid-operation and halted their work. Stranger still, the doctor mistakenly operating on Mrs. Edmondson's thyroid discovered and removed a benign nodule while the doctor mistakenly operating on Mrs. Robinson's vertebrae cured her of an unrelated pain in her leg by somehow relieving pressure on her sciatic nerve...
...Jeff Robinson gave the home fans one final cheer when he cut the lead to 4-3 at 16:16, but even pulling their goalie couldn't give the Larries the equalizer, and Greg Britz popped one into the empty net at 19:22 for the final tally...
...pity, for the story of Luis Cabrillo deserves consideration both as serious fiction and quasi history. As the author acknowledges, Luis is based on a real-life Spaniard code-named Arabel, who blithely invented espionage in Lisbon for the Germans and worked legitimately for the British during the war. Robinson, 48, a Cantabrigian who lives in a Surrey village Wodehousefully named Chipping Sodbury, worked for eight years as a Madison Avenue copywriter to finance his career as a novelist. The experience appears to have sharpened his sense of irony. He writes lyrically of the terrain of Spain, of the "vast...