Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that scene--it becomes suddenly less banal, more interesting--points up the book's major strength and weakness. From that point on, Robert's conflicts with his father are rooted in reality: someone, somehow, has to do something about Kate's pregnancy, and Robert's father, a prominent local surgeon, is a likely candidate for the task. But his father also believes firmly in a "sense of responsibility," and is extremely disappointed in his son Robert for displaying a serious failure to be responsible. One simply does not get one's friends pregnant...
...first half, Harvard succeeded on ten of 12 clears while riding Mass Maritime unmercifully and breaking up 13 of the Tritons' attempts to get the ball past midfield. The stickmen outshot their opponents, 30-7, and co-captain Sandy White demonstrated his specialty with the precision of a surgeon, coming up with 12 of 13 face-offs...
Wacker did say that Munch was asked to wait for a surgeon to examine her during the February 27 UHS visit, but that she instead left after the first doctor examined...
...also maintains that UHS's most recent refusal to admit Munch to Stillman infirmary, when it was discovered later that she had ulcerated collitis, was reasonable because Munch voluntarily walked out of the emergency room after waiting briefly for an on-call surgeon the doctor had summoned...
...said the University was not at fault because, "If the surgeon came in and decided it was safe for her to go to Stillman the option was still open to her," he said...