Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Not to Do. Wrote Morgenthau: "Germany . . . has been compared to a mental patient ... a whole zoo of animals ranging from snakes to apes . . . a young girl led astray." He preferred to write without hatred, attacked many a popular idea of what to do with Germany...
Never was a guinea pig more warmly welcomed. For 20 months young Henley lay on his back, while the daring Lister torturously scraped the infected foot bones with antisepticized instruments. To the general astonishment, gangrene failed to set in. When the scraping was successfully finished, the patient sat up and called for pencil and paper. Soon the editor of London's Cornhill Magazine began publishing Henley's In Hospital-a series of poems which concluded with the now-famed Invictus...
Rhinoplasty is the flossy name that surgeons give to fixing up noses. Manhattan Plastic Surgeon 'Jacob Daley thinks many rhinoplasties are mistakes because surgeon and patient forget about art. "Art takes the high road and seeks to create the unusual," Dr. Daley explains, "rhinoplasty takes the low road and seeks to remove all traces...
...help him decide whether a patient is really nasally desperate, Dr. Daley makes photographs from several angles, draws mysterious lines on the pictures and compares them with similar lines drawn on a sketch of an ideal face. Then he plans a compromise-somewhere between the patient's original nose and the ideal. Finally he tries it out on a wax cast. In the end, a patient who started with a broad, concave, bulbous-tipped nose will turn into no beauty: he will merely get a nose that is a little less broad, a little less concave, a little less...
King Clode summoned the Royal Physician. But the Royal Physician was ill: he was busy taking his own temperature and then shaking down the thermometer without looking at it. "As a physician," he explained to the King, "I must take my temperature every three hours, but as a patient, I must not be told what...