Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient's very heart. Bateman is only one of hundreds of patients who every month undergo dramatic cardiac surgery considered impossible only five years ago. To write the story of this revolutionary progress, TIME Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant spent two weeks visiting 13 major heart-surgery centers, donned scrub suit, cap and mask to watch half a dozen operations from the edge of the operating table, saw hearts stopped, cut and patched according to the latest, most daring techniques. See MEDICINE, Surgery's New Frontier...
...achieved it, but through the years, his music became ever cleaner and simpler. He was the ever-inquiring kind of man who could decide at 85 that (although he loved Wagner and Beethoven) "I have been poisoned all my life by the German approach to music," and attempt to scrub his performances even cleaner...
...under Head Coach Lloyd Jordan, 56, the Crimson football team has won only 24 games while losing 31 and tying three. Few men in the room knew a crossbuck from an Eliot House chambermaid. Only Associate Dean Robert Blake Watson had had direct contact with the game (as a scrub on the 1936 squad which won 3, lost four). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics and medieval history.) There were also some assorted deans, a professor of hygiene, and a director of financial aid. But like all Monday...
...under Head Coach Lloyd Jordan, 56, the Crimson football team has won only 24 games while losing 31 and tying three. Few men in the room knew a crossbuck from an Eliot House chambermaid. Only Associate Dean Robert Blake Watson had had direct contact with the game (as a scrub on the 1936 squad which won 3, lost 4). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics and Medieval history). There were also some assorted deans, a professor of hygiene, and a director of financial aid. But like all Monday...
...still there. His face stretches into weird contortions as he fights for breath. But he has proved, once more, his right to his job as linebacker. (On the other side of the field, Guard Dan Currie slams his 235 lbs. into a blocking dummy, drives the dummy and the scrub who is holding it a good five yards. Assistant Coach Doug Weaver looks pleased. The scrub looks startled. Currie looks down right awesome...