Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After TIME'S Foreign News section told the story last spring of Korean Nurse Grace Kim and her adopted son Ronnie (see picture below), many of you responded by writing letters and sending gifts to the Kim family. Because of such evident personal interest, I would like to pass along a recent progress report I received on Ronnie and his mother...
...hospital he was given food and vitamins in an attempt to nurse him back to health. There, one of the nurses, Grace Kim, who had already adopted a war-orphaned Korean girl, decided to adopt Ronnie. But despite his care, Ronnie developed alarming symptoms. An orthopedic surgeon made the diagnosis: Ronnie had tuberculosis of the spine. A delicate bone graft was necessary. Nurse Kim made her decision: the doctors could take bone grafts from her own leg to reinforce Ronnie's diseased vertebrae...
TIME'S April story concluded: "Last week the doctor chipped off a plaster cast that had held Grace Kim prisoner for nearly five months. Grace, he said, would limp for a long time to come, but eventually she would walk normally. As for her foster son, his back is still in a cast, but growing stronger every...
...Britain's demand for ?367,000 ($1,027,600) compensation for shooting
down a Cathay Pacific Skymaster off Hainan Island last July 23, in
which ten passengers (three of them American) lost their lives. Peking
has rejected three U.S. protests, but took the British protest in good
grace and even promised that "measures have been taken to prevent
recurrence of such incidents."
Rear Window. Hot and cold flashes of kissing and killing, as Alfred Hitchcock lets Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly and the customer get the eavesdrop on a murderer (TIME...