Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stewart Duke-Elder, Presbyterian minister's son who rose to become one of Britain's top eye specialists and Surgeon-Oculist to the King, had just come back from Buckingham Palace. His royal patient had added his personal honor to Sir Stewart's already impressive collection of medals and awards. The King, who reads through horn-rimmed glasses because of farsightedness, could thank Britain's foremost glaucoma expert for many a service to the Empire as well as to royal eyes. (Sir Stewart had also treated the Duke of Windsor, operated successfully on the Duchess...
...open market, with the coal and motorcars and luxuries the British people wanted. Sadly, with the air of the family doctor trying to break the news gently, Prime Minister Clement Attlee rose to speak on this point in the House of Commons. He was sympathetic with his old patient; he knew the British people were hungry and tired. But he was firm: if there was to be jam tomorrow, there could be no jam today. There would not even be jam tomorrow unless they all, women and old men included, worked more today. The U.S. loan (if Congress approved...
...agreement, reached weeks ahead of the expected date, was another triumph for patient, hard-driving Special Envoy Marshall, who had been a mainspring and balance wheel in the difficult negotiations. He called it "the great hope of China," voiced the hope "that its pages will not be soiled by small groups of irreconcilables, who for selfish purposes would defeat the Chinese . . . desire for . , . peace and prosperity...
...tiny Hartsville, S.C. (pop. 5,000), Dr. William Egleston worried over an infantile paralysis patient. Uncertain how to treat the disease-then (1924) relatively unexplored-Dr. Egleston, general practitioner, sent off a letter to a prominent polio victim, asking his advice...
...corrective, the physicians put both legs in plaster casts for two weeks, then fitted their patient with seven-pound steel braces from hips to heels. Gentle exercises on a bedboard were begun...