Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even when a lady reporter all but accused the President of violating the Constitution by vetoing the military construction bill, L.B.J. remained monumentally patient. Savoring every last chuckle from the press, Johnson drawled: "I would refer you to the Attorney Genera]-and I know he would be glad to give great weight to any observations you might have...
...hallowed counsel of the white man to the Negro has been patience−until at length the Negro was able to point out that he had been patient for one full century. The same counsel now has a more concrete content: patience, to let the new laws work, to let elections bring about the change implicit in all the stress on voting rights, to let the courts strike at anyone who discriminates in housing or jobs. This political weapon already feels good in the hands of many Negroes: those who form an effective voting bloc in Tennessee, those who have...
...struck back last week by occupying three deserted Pakistani outposts on the Kargil ridge line (see map). Not far away, Pakistani artillery was reported to be shelling the road to Leh. Kashmir's Governor Karan Singh warned, "There is a limit to the patience of even the most patient country in the world. They are driving iron into our souls...
...observed that "the most important thing is for a King to know the feeling of his people." Did he know that feeling? Most political observers are still convinced that Papandreou would win a smashing victory if a general election were called. But, votes apart, the young King's patient attempts to find a compromise candidate showed some promise of whittling the Old Fox's power. By naming Novas, who rallied a Cabinet from the ranks of Papandreou's dominant Center Union Party, the King had succeeded in removing 24 Deputies from Papandreou's aegis. Last week...
...malaria. But just as some bacteria have become resistant to penicillin, so have some falciparum parasites developed enough resistance to chloroquine to be labeled "refractory" by Army medics. Most servicemen hospitalized for malaria are out in a week or ten days. Relapses may occur whenever a recovered patient's resistance is lowered-especially if he is wounded and loses much blood...