Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board a ship. Yelled he was going to the Big Three meeting to save the world. Screamed he represented all the people on earth. The nut said he had a teeny-weeny atomic bomb and knew exactly where to drop it. Said he was commissioned by God.' Patient falls heavily to floor. Headlines: .. . 'Mysterious Explosion Destroys Bellevue. All Maniacs Missing...
...practical, patient Czechoslovaks have undergone occupation of one kind or another ever since Munich. Last week they gladly heard that the end was near. Mild-mannered, thin-faced Premier Zdenek Fierlinger announced that both Russia and the U.S. had agreed to withdraw their soldiers. In Washington the State Department said that both armies would leave...
...Guthrie's statement that surgery has become painless "shocks one as a thundering lie ... but of course means only that the patient does not feel the touch of the surgeon's knife. . . ." (The pain comes after operations...
...Patient No. 6 looked "aged and physically enfeebled," but her manner was childlike. She was 42 when she told her story. Her disease: high blood pressure, ranging up to 250 systolic pressure (125 is about normal...
None of the 24 patients fits the traditional picture of a high-blood-pressure patient: a choleric, domineering individual of whom everyone is afraid. Almost every one of the patients studied could be classed as "submissive and dependent.' Many cried easily. They blushed and sweated on slight provocation. Those who had rages usually kept them to themselves ("It goes on inwardly"). Most had been poor at one time or another or neglected, by parents and relatives. Some had endured cruel stepmothers and wife-beating husbands. High blood pressure (first signs: headaches, sweating) usually showed up after some crisis, when...