Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...18th Century, small New England shopkeepers had ditched the British shop in favor of the more grandiose store.) U.S. undertakers have fought and won a hundred-years' war to sweeten the sound of their macabre occupation. Today, after relatives have consulted with an obsequial engineer, the so-called patient (who may in his lifetime have been a realtor, soda-counter fizzician or canine-control officer) is first preserved by an expert sanitarian, then garbed in a slumber-robe, then laid in his slumber-cot, and finally whisked off in a casket-coach to his appointed burial-abbey...
Doctors could do nothing with a brooding G.I. mental patient in Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, until one of them noted on his medical records that he had once been a flutist in a symphony orchestra. They sent for a music teacher and a flute...
...patient who went home for a visit even found that his affliction had its advantages. Said he: "I had to convince the whole town that I didn't have anything bad.... I figured that if everyone was so scared at first at home, why I'd get a wide berth any time I wanted it. It sure was crowded on the train coming back and I started to get hot and boy, did I begin to itch! So I just rolled up my sleeves and showed my splotches. ... In two minutes I had four seats all to myself...
Burly Thomas B. Tucker of Corpus Christi, Tex. is no braver than anybody else about going to the dentist. Recently, after many postponements, Patient Tucker lowered himself into the chair of Dentist Robert Beauregard Black and said: "I am so nervous you can't touch my teeth without novocaine...
...looked something like a small pneumatic drill past Mr. Tucker's suspicious eyes and went to work. But Mr. Tucker just relaxed. He felt no jarring, no pressure, no buzzing. Few, if any, of Dr. Black's fingers were in his mouth at any one time. All Patient Tucker felt was an occasional tiny, cool jet of air. When the session was over, he rushed out of the dentist's office to tell people that the days of the buzzing, overheating dentist's drill are over...