All at once, he wished he were simply a starving onetime medical student once more.

Schoenberg amiably dismissed his onetime student Cage as an inventor, not a composer; many of these American eccentrics receive the same condescension.

Mr. Fitzgibbon described his onetime student as childlike.

Shaney, the onetime medical student, was put in charge of the mercy squad.

Mere human nostrums all too often did much less than what they claimed; as a onetime medical student, he had some feel for how complex the human organism was.

When Dexter finally turned the Committee down, he recommended Nixon, his onetime student.

But on Nov. 12, 1993, a 34-year-old man, a onetime seminary student, filed a suit accusing Cardinal Bernardin and another priest of having abused him 17 years earlier.

Last week, Jim Fassel knew how to get under the skin of his onetime student, the Arizona quarterback Kent Graham.

Denis Woychuk, his partner and onetime student, is a lawyer by training but has also written several children's books and is working on a novel.

A onetime student of anthropology who is known for his discomfort in a suit or even a necktie, Mr. Shaw knew little about running railroads, subways and buses.