Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dust floated thickly in the air of the canvas tent that was Dr. Dass's operating theater in Darbhanga last week. Amid a raucous babble of several hundred patients, squatting on their haunches to await their turns at one of the makeshift operating tables, sweating coolies carried off postoperative patients at the rate of one a minute. As each new patient was placed on the table, an assistant washed the clouded eye with a mercury solution and applied a few drops of anesthetic. Then, while another assistant held a flashlight, the surgeon slipped his knife into the patient...
...proportionate to the danger. That would mean use of the atomic bomb, as no power would launch a surprise attack on the United States without an adequate supply of atomic bombs . . . Neither reason nor theology nor morals requires men or nations to commit suicide by requiring that we must await the first blow...
Radio Peking last week blared the order of the Red day, exhorted Mao's men on: "The imperialist armies under command of MacArthur await their fate of being totally crushed . . ." The entire people of Korea, of China, of Asia and the whole world are watching your glorious struggle with unbounded respect...
...very thing that U.S. Reds banked on was that the First Amendment would give them freedom to make "all preparatory steps and in the end the choice of initiative, dependent upon that moment when they believe us, who must await the blow, to be worst prepared to receive it" -an analysis which paralleled the analysis made by Judge Medina...
Once, parents would have had no choice but to accept this verdict and await the worst. But modern medical science presented the Haires with a cruel dilemma. They might, said the doctors, have one of Becky's eyes removed to make sure that she was suffering from cancer of the optic nerve, which might then be arrested. The second eye might have to be removed later. The alternative: Becky's eyes might be treated with X rays and radium. The doctors believed that she would have a 60% chance to recover after surgery, only 35% after radiation...