Word: tormey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there seems to be a new altruistic spirit among the candidates for medical school. Admission committees, which used to be skeptical of would-be doctors who "pulled an Arrowsmith"?talked about their dedication to humanity?are now getting used to the phenomenon. Says Dr. David Tormey of the University of Vermont medical school: "The contrast between the senior class and the far more liberal freshman class is almost a generation gap within the student society itself." Many of the new students are interested in going into public health rather than into lucrative private practice...
Apart from the physical danger they present, the snakes have caused a sense of civic humiliation. Like most suburban communities, Pinole hopes to grow, and Mayor Donald E. Tormey fears that the snakes are driving away new residents. No one speaks for the snakes, who owned Pinole in the first place, and may simply be having their vengeance upon the bulldozer...