Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Relatively few Americans care to sit through a symphony program; fewer still would think of standing through one. But for Londoners, standing is natural when midsummer rolls around and the Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall get going. A good many of the queue-hardy, in fact, stand all day, sometimes four abreast, in lines stretching around the hall and down the street. When the doors open at 6:45 p.m., they plop down their 2s. 6d., break for the arena floor, and go right on standing. Those with the best positions (i.e., as close to the conductor...
...does the foundation want more money? The root of the trouble is that it is stuck with a $19 million bill for gamma globulin this year, in addition to a $7,500,000 test of the Salk vaccine, plus all its regular outlays for care of patients (estimated to top $33.5 million), education and research. Though doctors still disagree on the value of gamma globulin, the foundation had to buy up most of the year's output and control its distribution, or haphazard use would have ruined the Salk vaccine test. Meanwhile, the foundation was reduced to asking hospitals...
...Miracle seekers. Example: a Negro woman with cancer of the breast who covered herself with a "prayer cloth" each day for six months before seeking medical care. Now near death, she "believes that the failure of the prayer cloth was due to her sins." 2) The uninformed. One businessman did not know the difference between an M.D. and other self-styled "doctors...
Quacks attract patients by "kindness, consideration, and recognition of the patient as a person." They give the appearance of explaining things to the patient in understandable English. "The quack ties the patient to him through the bonds of grateful appreciation . . . The cancer patient seeks not only adequate medical care, but sympathetic emotional support...
...wish that my Room had a Floor; I don't so much care for a Door. But this walking around without touching the Ground, Is getting to be quite a bore...