Word: vic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evade the paternal embrace of Britain's National Health Service. They had wanted to keep their little (44-bed) building as a separate general hospital (TIME, Dec. 4). But N.H.S. insisted, for efficiency's sake, on converting it to a gynecological unit, which meant sending "the Vic's" general patients to the big, impersonal Kingston General Hospital...
...going to be there in the operating room with the surgeon, holding her hand, and that I'll come and see her every day-that can make all the difference to her decision to give consent to the operation, and even to her recovery. Now the old Vic's closed I have to tell her: 'Here's a letter. Take it to the Kingston General Hospital and that...
Detroit is still in the slump which struck it last September. George Kell and Vic Wertz are the best third baseman and right fielder in the game, but only Hal Newhouser is pitching adequately. Hoot Evers, easily the best left fielder in the league last year, is hitting .133 and sitting on the bench. Johnny Lipon's fielding at short has fallen apart after a great year. Only catcher Myron Ginsberg has shown improvement...
Northeastern has a comparatively weak-hitting club. Gallagher considers his shortstop and cleanup man, Vic Colo, his most dependable batter, but Colo's average has drifted below 300. Left-hander Andy Allan leads the team in hits...
...lapsed back into lackluster .500 ball. The New York Yankees, always strong on the mound, won all six games in their own stadium, then made themselves at home abroad by touching off an eight-game winning streak on the road. Two good reasons for the Yankees' success: Pitchers Vic Raschi and Ed Lopat, the league's leaders with four victories apiece...