Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only 400 people showed up in the 10° cold to greet him. On a thawing Sunday, on the other hand, Ford lured some 1,000 enthusiastic well-wishers to a cake and coffee reception in Concord. He won strong applause at the University of New Hampshire for his patient and controlled responses to the heckling questions of radicals...
Honed over more than a decade of public life, the Reagan speech is no Gettysburg Address, but it lights up the audience. Sample warm-up joke: A man in traction in a hospital pays no attention to the visitor bending anxiously over him. Finally, the patient opens his eyes and explains in a discreet Irish brogue that he kept silent because he wanted to savor the moment: "It's been six months here since I've had a drink, and your breath is like the rain from heaven...
...often seemed preoccupied with drugs, conspiracies and other counterculture concerns; more recently the magazine has moved part way off those trendy themes. New Times has reported on a mini-civil war between natives and newcomers in Telluride, Colo., on California hospitals that allegedly give kickbacks to doctors for patient referrals, and on a right-wing militia group in San Diego. Much of New Times's most engaging work is by young writers. Among them: Steve Diamond, 29, whose piece on corruption in federal grain inspection was one of the first journalistic forays into that quagmire; Roger Rapoport...
Fassi calmly reassures his skaters that they are good even when they are depressed. "To make a champion," he says in his slightly fractured English, "I have to be patient. With Dorothy, it is not always easy. She gets mad at herself." Curry also benefited from Fassi's encouragement: "Months before a major competition he starts telling everyone how good you are. Pretty soon you think so yourself...
...Harvard Medical School psychiatrist warned a national science conference Thursday that there is a grave danger in the growing medical tendency to prescribe Valium and Librium tranquilizers "to save the doctor time and avoid the reality of a patient's emotional problems...