Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, most of the 3,500 delegates sat quietly patient through the vicious wranglings of right-and left-wing leaders. Everyone knew that the C.I.O.'s biggest Communist-dominated union was going to stay dominated...
...Britain is dedicated to decent homes and delousing for all. But, for a Government also dedicated to respect for individual property and other rights, while striving to provide the good life in a time of national strain, the problem is how to keep pace with a long-patient people who are suddenly losing their patience. Of course the few London squatters are an infinitesimal fraction of Britain's millions. But they are an index fraction...
...diving bats, the sleek grey rats. (The Overseas News Agency's Robert Gary put one rat out of action with a well-aimed copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) The New York Times's Ray Daniell and radio's nervous Bill Shirer were less patient. They reached the high note of indignation when they went to complain about a powdered-egg breakfast and found the German staff eating steak...
...week or two, normally, the patient walks out of the hospital without crutches (with conventional treatment it may take months). Later, a surgeon pulls out the nail, and the healed bone is as good...
...John Quintin Griffith Jr., and colleagues at Penn's Medical School clinic, discovered several years ago that the blood serum of some patients with high blood pressure contained a pituitary hormone which slows up the secretion of urine. A synthetic preparation of the hormone, called pitressin, was found to have a peculiar property: injected into a patient, it reduces urine secretion at first, but after a few days increases...