Word: smocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to relate to it," says Oprah, a lavender dressing smock draped over her shoulders and a stack of clippings and notes in her lap. "Do most people deal with this in their day-to-day lives...
...University of Vermont men's lacrosse team put on its smock and played sculpture yesterday at Ohiri Field...
Vagelos, 58, decided to make that life his own, and he succeeded beyond his greatest expectations. A local boy who made really good, he traded his apron for a doctor's smock at medical school, eventually joined Merck and by 1986 had become the company's chairman, president and chief executive officer. Under the spell of Vagelos' visionary vigor, the company has recovered from a tepid performance in the early 1980s to become the world's No. 1 prescription drugmaker. Though many Americans probably could not name a single Merck product, especially since its Sucrets sore-throat lozenge and Calgon...
...illustration of how fragile the pro player truly is, but in 1978, his final season, he absorbed a terrible one. In an exhibition game at Oakland, Safety Jack Tatum, the Raiders' most notorious hitter, collided with New England Receiver Darryl Stingley, leaving Stingley permanently paralyzed. Madden donned a surgical smock to stay with Stingley in the hospital that night and opened his home to the injured man's family. But, with a shrug, Madden minimizes the accident's part in his decision to quit coaching. He prefers to repeat a wistful anecdote about how he thought his 16- year...
...long ago a dietitian was that underpaid woman in the white smock who decided whether it would be peanut-butter or bologna sandwiches on the school lunch menu. Today, for those students who grew up to be bicoastal investment bankers, a dietitian is likely to be the latest acquisition in personal advisers. Though still usually a woman, she has gone private in a big way, with clients who include not only fitness trendies but the overweight, the pregnant and sufferers from such food-sensitive diseases as diabetes and hypertension. Aiming for permanent eating-pattern changes, the dietitian or nutritionist often...