Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patient No. 1. Great Britain needed Bretton Woods more than any other important trading nation, but gagged over the dose. Her classic advocacy of free trade had been not only abandoned but reversed. In self-defense Britain had gone so deeply into trade controls that she reacted instinctively against any plan looking toward an eventual resumption of free trade...
When it finally dawned on them that D.D.T. was the root of the trouble,* the worried patient relaxed and was able to go to work. Unlike the doomed fly, his health gradually returned. But even now, a year later, he is still not willing to admit that he is in the pink...
...patient, deep disdain...
What the war had done to 40 years of patient educational progress was plain to see in battered Manila. Only 20 of the 48 big elementary schools could open. Their makeshift quarters accommodated only a third of the prewar enrollment (112,000). Three of the city's four high schools, which normally served 26,000 students, were hard put to it to take in 4,000. In two of them, students found refugee squatters who refused to budge...
...Caplan gave shock treatments on an average of once a week to 15 patients who had continued to have more than two major fits a month after full doses of anticonvulsant drugs. Results: 1) eleven patients had fewer fits; one had only one in two months; 2) each patient in shock duplicated his natural fit, going through his own peculiar pattern of motion; 3) recovery from electric shock was quicker than from natural seizures, which often incapacitate a man for the day; 4) the remaining natural fits were less severe than before...