Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally come to grips with the fact that last year is gone. If the new generation of leaders can make this year its own, Harvard can go 6-1 in the Ivies. So, as fond as the memories of last year are, it's still way too early to turn back the clock and live in the past...
...oncology floor recently with an even rarer symptom, a disfiguring full-body rash that, her sister Doris Del Castilho explains, "started as tiny flakes of skin and then got bigger and opened up like a flower." A few minutes ago, she asked Del Castilho to help her turn over in bed, when suddenly "her eyes rolled up. I heard them say, 'I don't get a heartbeat. I don't get a pulse...
...pump air into her lungs. Baker prays with Del Castilho as the doctors push epinephrine and atropine through an IV. Briefly, there seems hope of stabilization, and Yopp is wheeled to the medical ICU. But two hours later, after multiple IV infusions, resident Timm Dickfeld takes one last turn at CPR, punishing Yopp's chest almost savagely, then stops. "Call the code," says someone. "Call it." Dickfeld finally accedes. "Over," he says. He makes a chopping gesture. Yopp is dead...
...which she thinks is just the way they want it. Kurtzberg picks up the fax from the Russian boy and says, "You can't make those decisions with a letter like this on your desk." Then she adds, "If this kid showed up in my clinic, I wouldn't turn him away...
...uncommonly stupid; divas, when they are not scarfing down pasta, are outrageously unreliable. The imperious troublemaker Kathleen Battle, feeling chilly in a limo in Los Angeles, is said to have telephoned her manager in New York City and ordered him to call her driver to ask him to turn down the air conditioning. A nervous Deborah Voigt, waiting backstage for her entrance, absentmindedly ate a prop chicken. Opera buffs will munch happily too on these nuggets...