Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loath to be told, or even have suggested, what they ought to think about the war. Not that they are all openly hostile to the canvassers. "I believe that we're fighting for America, so that people like you will be free to hand out leaflets," said a patient old man in a straw hat and an old suit. But he would not take any of the leaflets. Wouldn't he just look at "What Six Military Leaders Say About Vietnam," you ask, handing him the shortest of the pamphlets...
...Patient Resistance. "The idea was mine," said Douglas, a pacifist in the early 1930s who saw heavy combat in his 50s in World War II as a Marine officer. Disturbed that the Viet Nam debate was dominated by "extremists on both sides," he began writing friends last summer, incorporated the committee on July 31, and helped to draft a policy statement that was edited in longhand by Eisenhower...
...rewarding international aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Mao Tse-tung." Lest Hanoi get the wrong idea from antiwar demonstrations, it added: "We want the aggressors to know that there is a solid, stubborn, dedicated, bipartisan majority of private citizens in America who approve our country's policy of patient, responsible, determined resistance...
...artificial-kidney machines, 50 to 100 victims of kidney disease are waiting in line for potential donors in New York City alone. Thousands more in other cities are biding their time for the same reason. Often the obstacle to donation is not the delicate task of asking the dying patient to donate his kidneys. In appealing for greater posthumous largesse, Mount Sinai's Dr. Lewis Burrows also addressed families of the dying-because, under laws in many states, once a patient dies his organs become the property of his estate and can be removed only with family approval...
...little ill in mind and heart, if you crave a measure of vicarious escape, I do not direct you to the series of fourteen novels Ross MacDonald has written about Los Angeles private detective Lew Archer. That would be a bit too much like presenting a presurgical patient with Gray's Anatomy by way of light reading...