Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having barely survived a massive hemorrhage, the patient was still dangerously ill. But Prime Minister Harold Wilson left the bedside of the British economy to fly to Washington for his meeting with President Johnson. In the first week after emergency treatment was applied, through $3 billion in standby financing from eleven nations to halt a panicky run on the pound, Britain's currency rallied on New York exchanges to a high of $2.7929. But that was still below its par strength of $2.80, and for the basic cause of the sickness-Britain's longtime negative trade balance...
Shared Skepticism. From its closest neighbors, the patient continued to get little sympathy. At its annual meeting the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a club of 20 Western industrial nations and Japan, listened to Labor's Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan defend Britain's recovery measures as "adequate for the time being." Callaghan was loyally supported by U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball, but most European countries bitterly attacked Britain's 15% surcharge on most imports...
...blown up with the helium gas used for balloons at the circus-only the skin of his leiTs is like old, dried, peeling leather"; the African whose homemade poo-poo gun had exploded and taken half his face with it; the difficult obstetrical cases, as for instance the pregnant patient who had to be operated on for a ruptured uterus. "The lady had come about 75 miles in trucks. When she got here, she had no blood pressure and a pulse of 180. We thank God that she is slowly on the way to recovery. And she paid...
...from their capital, the fight will go on for some time. In their rapid push to save white lives, the Congolese army left big rebel pockets behind. Many pessimists talk of a "Hundred Years War." How can the rebellion be crushed? The remedy, as Tshombe sees it, is a patient formula-denounced as neo-colonial by his enemies-in which white men will hold as many key jobs as possible for as long as it takes to mold an effective army and an efficient administration. His refusal to "Africanize" at all cost is part of the reason...
...blindness may not feel it until several hours afterwards. The first indication will be a slight visual discomfort like a speck in the eye. This worsens until the eyes burn as though full of grains of sand, with accompanying frofuse flow of tears and swelling of the eyelids. The patient will dread the sight of bright light...