Device for passing the buck?

Usage examples of atm.

Popeye loved it when every few weeks her owner would put her in a sink of warm water and lather her up with Nusalt antiseborrheic therapeutic shampoo, followed by the Relief antipruritic oatmeal and pramoxine cream rinse that her owner kneaded into Popeye's fur for exactly seven minutes, as the directions prescribed.

By law, all doctors and hospitals are required to report all gunshot wounds to police, but thus far no one has requested treatment.

It tasted nothing like the oatmeal she had eaten before, being rich with butter and milk, and having a salty taste.

Bubba had been raised in a Presbyterian atmosphere of predestination, God's will, inclusive language, exegesis and colorful stoles.

Roop was smart enough to know that if he was one of the twenty or thirty aggressive members of the media perched outside the restaurant door, he would not get special treatment.

But when he got like this, there was no point ranting and raving about something unless she wanted to get the treatment.

Brazil finally had to get a judge to grant permission for treatment, which would have resolved the matter had there not been a school-bus accident midafternoon.

She told the falling-downstairs story for the second time in three months and didn't think even the intern who'd been there observing the examination and the treatment believed it this time, but no one asked any uncomfortable questions.

That had been the better part of his childhood, but it infuriated him that Anna had been subjected to such treatment.

When he left again the atmosphere between them was still cold and silent.

A black-eyed young man in Western dress gave his attention solely to Rhy, not even glancing at her, and she received the same treatment from the desk clerk.

The intimate atmosphere was another spike that crucified her heart, but as Blake welcomed the pain of therapy, she welcomed the hurt of his company.

The atmosphere was easy, comfortable, and he commented on it when they were driving home late that night.

He was infatuated with her, lured by the challenge of seducing her and the hothouse atmosphere that his intense therapy program had generated.

He'd taken her to a restaurant in New Orleans where she'd never been before, and she liked the place-out-of-time atmosphere.