Word: vetting
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...WHAT HOME TEAM LOVE is really all about--optimism, the belief that the next inning, the next game, the next season will bring a better crop of Phillies. That's what sustains you. It can be addictive. I loved the Phillies so much that when they moved to Vet Stadium I became one of them. Well at least I wore a uniform. I was a vendor selling cokes that first year and the next two--until seniority at last enabled me to move into the exclusive ice cream ranks. There were only six of us on ice cream...
...wanted to make sure that I didn't end up being a 29-year-old, ten-year vet with nowhere...
...American Psychiatric Association, which held its annual convention at Anaheim, Calif. In a happy exercise of regression, they all visited the Mad Hatter's tea party, bought Mickey Mouse hats and hugged Goofy the Dog as if he had just returned from a traumatic trip to the vet. Explained Dr. Miles Shore, superintendent of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston: "You enjoy the fantasies of your childhood again, and it acts as a rejuvenation so you can go back happily to the problems of the adult world...
...sophomore year, switched into the biology department. Being a pre-med and a musician doesn't seem to cause any internal conflicts--she grew up with both interests and has always pursued them simultaneously. "When I was little I always wanted to be a vet," she says, and that desire, at some point, changed into a desire to be a doctor. She thinks now that she'd like to be a general practitioner or a gynecologist and obstetrician...
...railroad depot was full of yapping dogs and eager drivers, who made last-minute adjustments to their birchwood sleds, dosed their teams with cod-liver oil, and administered suppositories so that the dogs would excrete before and not during the race. As the town's lone vet scurried about treating sore legs and nervous stomachs, sheriffs deputies shooed away an occasional stray Dalmation or schnauzer...