Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night and indifferently the next. DeBusschere's arrival allowed gan gly Willis Reed to move from the cor ner to his old position at center, where he has performed inspiringly every night since, scoring at a rate of 25 points a game. With that simple shuffle, every thing went click for the Knicks...
...patient is also at the mercy of the hospitals. Which are the good ones? The nearest thing to a criterion, except for university affiliation, is whether a hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, set up by the A.M.A., the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians and the American Hospital Association. The U.S. has 5,850 general-care hospitals,-with 645,000 beds for medical and surgical patients, 82,000 for maternity cases. Of the 5,850, only 3,914 have received the cachet of accreditation. Each year there are about 1.5 million...
...When I'm on that stage," says Nina Simone, "I don't think I'm just out there to entertain." Nina is a Negro and proud of it; she is out there to share with the audience what Soul Singer Ray Charles calls her "message things." When her listeners are not with her, she can be icy: "You're not giving one thing tonight." When they are with her, which is most of the time, the ice melts. "When we connect, an audience and myself, when we hit a certain point, I just get all happy...
...they specialize in the delights of "carom-fighting" (jabbing at a spouse by mocking his religion or his child by a former marriage), "hit and run" (saying "You made me lose my appetite" in the middle of dinner), and "psychoanalysis" ("Your childhood was more pathogenic than mine, you poor thing!"). Though less neurotic, "round-robin" fighters share a too pessimistic view that they cannot change either themselves or their relationship. Insensitive to possible compromises, they are trapped in the stalemate of "God, how many times have we been through all this before?" and the tune-out of "Here...
...easier to become a minister in Hensley's church than to join the Catholic priesthood. All a candidate needs is a postage stamp. He will be ordained a minister by return mail. Any man, woman or child can become a minister in the Universal Life Church. The only thing that Hensley demands is a name and an address, so that he can fill out the certificate. After that, the new minister is on his own. In California, and according to Hensley, in many other states, he can perform marriages (if he is over 21), officiate at funerals, dedicate churches...