Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone knows who ever sat back waiting for the worst, a dentist's chair is not the place where a patient feels at his most masterful. "Whatever you say, Doc," is a customary attitude. But it also can be an invitation to painful larceny, both petit and grand, or so says a dentist named Melvin Denholtz...
...recommends Government clinics and dental schools -often inconvenient, sometimes low on quality, but easy on the wallet. At all costs, do not fall prey to what Denholtz calls cut-rate "assembly line" dental sweatshops, where one man said he had all his teeth pulled in 35 seconds while the dentist boasted, "This is just like shelling corn...
...come the "bill-paying machine" everyone expected him to be, Henry Jackson first tries to bully and then to cajole Hannah into the operating room. He argues sensibly that she is chasing after a romantic ideal, unattainable in life and certainly in death. "I'm a good dentist," he tells her. "And I might have been a good artist instead, if I'd had a chance to try. But I don't want the chance...
...after he was beaten in a ten-mile race by an eight-year-old girl. Says Witteman of his first experience in the Boston Marathon six weeks ago: "After 15 miles I really wanted to quit. Then I felt a hand on my back, and a 75-year-old dentist came up behind me and said, 'You have to keep running...
...other Pennsylvania political figures are awaiting trial. State Senator Francis Lynch and former State Representative Stephen Wojdak have been charged with extorting $15,000 from a dentist to obtain his son's admission to the Temple University School of Dentistry. The U.S. investigation is continuing, and the pressure has shifted from the dean's office to the statehouse...