Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know whether it will be successful or not, but I hope that American public opinion will be patient. I think we have made enough concessions. I have made honorable proposals to end the war. And I believe I cannot do anything else without surrendering the country...
...Weathermen, members of RYM (although many milder RYM adherents have lately begun dissociating themselves from certain Weathermen offensives) are an outgrowth of last year's New Left, viewed at the time as being less militant than WSA. While WSA is well-organized, tightly disciplined, and patient, building for revolution around the support of America's working class, the Weathermen are flamboyant. They use guerrilla tacties, hit-and-run violence...
...medical generation gap was even more dramatically dominant in the generally engrossing premiere of NBC's The Bold Ones, which starred E. G. Marshall, David Hartman and John Saxon. In this case, the old-school practitioner, played flawlessly by Guest Star Pat Hingle, refused to declare a dying patient legally dead, thus exasperating an overeager young surgeon (Saxon) in search of a kidney to transplant. Hingle, it turned out, didn't have all those gray hairs for nothing; the dying patient miraculously improved. Bold Ones is a trilogy series, running in three-week cycles of lawyer stories, police...
...social workers were usually around, talking with tremendous enthusiasm to the one or two patients who were in good enough shape to respond to them in the way they expected. Sometimes some volunteers would come in from the B'nai B'rith or some women's club to ease their middle class consciences, and shower the area with synthetic smiles, and say to a patient they knew, "WELL III THERE, HOW ARE YOU TODAY...
...wanted very much for one of these volunteers to talk to me but they wouldn't; they all went straight for the one patient they knew, the one they felt comfortable with. I hated these volunteers...