Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...health of our people is, inescapably, the foundation for fulfillment of all our aspirations," declared President Johnson in his special message to the Congress outlining a broad health-care program that he termed "practical, prudent and patient." Its goal, he said, was to lay a firm foundation for "the healthiest, happiest and most hopeful society in the history...
...only three states (Connecticut, Kansas and Utah) require medical justification. The other 47 states have no such requirement. The chief proponent of the operations, the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, argues that they are legal provided that they are "for the protection and in the best interest of the patient's well-being...
...operation is often done immediately after childbirth. It is technically easier then, and more convenient because the patient is already in the hospital. Surgeons' fees average around $200. Increasing use of contraceptive pills among women who can afford them may tend to cut down female sterilization. But there is no pill...
...article Johnson spelled out his brand of idealistic pragmatism and condemned the tendency to label and dogmatize, with too many politicians preferring to be expedient rather than patient: "To grant audiences to 170 million Americans would be exhausting. So we make our divisions, our classifications and our cross-classifications, which permit us to forgo the listening and the searching we ought...
...Rosie long enough to propose to her. She was 18 and he 47. She told him to wait three years. Off he went to wait, pathetically telling all to the patient Lady Mount-Temple and her husband. If Rosie were to love another, he wrote, "I would do all for her - bear - if it were necessary -to see them together all day - be their footman and walk behind them - nay - be their servant after they were married - if they needed it - I don't think her father loves her so well as that." He and Rosie, who kept stalling...