Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bizarre Scheme. Perutz studied molecular structure by analyzing X-ray photographs of crystallized hemoglobin. Scattered and deflected by the atoms within, the X-rays form a pattern of light and dark spots on a film behind the crystal. By patient mathematical analysis of thousands of variations of this pattern (each produced by a Perutz technique of substituting mercury "tag" atoms for different atoms within the hemoglobin molecule), the structure of the complex molecule was carefully pieced together...
...hospital's patient services are as inadequate as its plant. Nurses and aides are in such short supply that the gravely ill sometimes die unnoticed and unattended; fragile premature babies have missed crucial feedings. Surgery patients must wait as long as two months until operating facilities become available. In some minor cases, doctors are known to have used instruments that were just dipped in rusty sinks. On a typical Saturday, the hospital treats 500 emergency patients-nearly twice as many as all of Boston's other hospitals combined-but its scandalous state is so well known to ghetto...
More kith and kin gathered. The three eldest children?Kathleen, 16, Joseph, 15, and Robert, 14?were allowed to see their father. Andy Williams, George Plimpton, Rafer Johnson and others peeked in. The even rise and fall of the patient's chest offered some reassurance; the blackened eyes and the pallor of cheeks that had been healthy and tanned a few hours before were frightening...
Like Walt Whitman's noiseless, patient spider, young American poets continue to unspool their thoughts and feelings, seeking anchorages for mind and heart-mostly heart. There are 54 of them represented in this anthology and many are anything but noiseless...
...House Masters, and junior faculty. (President Pusey and Franklin Ford, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, happened to be out of town that day, but upon learning of the sit in neither man attempted to take control of the situation away from the hands of the amiable, patient college deans and their House helpers.) Glimp rejected offers to bring in Cambridge police, tear gas, and other forms of mechanical coercion. He felt the use of police would only inflame the situation and decided to use it only if the sit-in continued indefinitely. As it turned out, after...