Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Routine" Cases. To the charge that modern U.S. medicine is so fascinated by research that it is losing sight of the patient, Dr. Berry responded: "Good research is really the pathway to a better understanding of the patient. One cannot understand disease until one understands the deranged biochemical behavior that is disease. Then every patient becomes a research opportunity, and there are no more 'routine' cases...
...guarded by U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers who protected themselves from ambush by spraying the jungle on each side with machine-gun fire. No sooner had the convoy passed than 500 Viet Cong on bicycles emerged from the jungle and pedaled madly in pursuit until it was out of sight. On his devious journey to guerrilla headquarters, Okamura was escorted at a killing pace through the jungle by a 73-year-old woman guide, then was taken in hand by a Viet Cong commissar who wore a cowboy hat, an orange shirt, and had a police whistle strung round...
...long in the tooth," and South Africa's Gary Player, 29, a 150-lb. peanut who does push-ups so he can play with the big boys. In 15 years of trying, Nagle had never won a tournament in the U.S. Player had won just about everything in sight (the Masters, P.G.A., British Open)-except the U.S. Open. The last foreigner to hold the Open championship was Britain's Ted Ray, in 1920, and now a foreigner was going to hold it again...
...given a reason-and neither has RCA. In the succeeding months-and years-he got the customary offers from other companies anxious to hire a top-level manager, but turned them all down. "There are not," he said, "many jobs available on that level." Burns largely dropped out of sight; he became a private consultant to several companies, served as vice chairman for E. F. MacDonald Co. (Plaid Stamps...
...buckle than swash, Quinn provides an exuberant reprise of his Zorba the Greek characterization, though the parallel becomes a bit insistent when he starts nuzzling Tampico's (and Zorba's) rarest old jade, Lila Kedrova. Despite an occasional drift into the shallows, High Wind never loses sight of its goals. The script even touches upon the novel's suggestion that the captain harbors a disquieting yen for the spunky ten-year-old Emily (Deborah Baxter), who ultimately spells his destruction...