Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They played a patient, controlled offense, continually working the ball around for the good shot. When they got one, they generally made it, shooting 59 per cent (33 of 56) from the field...
...long way from affirmation and concern to naivete and sanctimony. Intellectuals in the legislative process are no longer self-conscious idealogues--they have begun to understand (the 60s and all that) the uses of non-ideology and the beauty of natural wisdom. They are somewhat more patient today than before with the frustrations of the average voter and have some understanding of how those frustrations must be dealt with if any goals are to be achieved...
...times last season was only the beginning of the front four's contribution to the Steelers. They set the tone for the entire defense and it was the defense that carried the 42-year-old Pittsburgh franchise to its first Super Bowl championship last year. The creation of patient, low-key Head Coach Chuck Noll, who drafted all but two of the starting defensive players, and Steelers Founder and Owner Art Rooney, who gave Noll the backing he needed to build slowly over the past six years, the defense is the cornerstone of Pittsburgh's leadership in the N.F.L. When...
Ready for Jogging. Because these drugs decrease the body's resistance, the patient becomes highly susceptible to infection. The Stanford group has a remedy for that too. "We throw a whole array of antibiotics at the patient as soon as we suspect something," says Dr. Sharon Hunt, a member of the postoperative care team. "Once we have ascertained the exact nature of the infection, we withdraw those that are not needed...
Soon after surgery, the doctors order a special physical-fitness program that includes jogging, calisthenics and other forms of vigorous exercise. This tends to counter a side effect of one type of immunosuppressive drug: demineralization of the bones. One patient, a professional bowler who will shortly be discharged from Stanford, has been given free rein to resume his career; another is careening about Palo Alto these days on a ten-speed bike...