Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other 19 escaped prisoners. Unless they had help from the outside, the vanished prisoners (twelve of them Nazi officers) faced nearly 200 miles of trudging across barren cactus-studded desert to reach the Mexican border. Veteran Arizona sheriff's deputies and U.S. border patrolmen settled down to patient, poker-faced waiting...
Letters to the Editor. China's press and leaders suddenly became articulate about the plight of patient lao ping. Said General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The military set-backs will do us more good than harm. The more defeats we suffer, the more daring is the press in expressing its opinions. Previously we knew little about the fact that our soldiers were underfed and thinly clad." In a national campaign to "comfort the troops," great sums of money were collected. Little was donated direct to the Government for disbursement by slow-moving bureaucrats. But millions of Chinese dollars (on current...
...dolorimeter is also used on people who already have a pain. It can measure pain anywhere in the body-Marat's itch, Prometheus' pecked liver and Job's ulcers would have been equally fair game. The machine is applied to the patient's leg and the squeeze increased beyond the threshold, up & up until the agonized shin bone makes the patient forget his neuralgia or whatever was hurting him. A reading at that point gauges the severity of the neuralgia, the sores or the itch. By comparing the first day's pain intensity with successive...
...lying with its author, John Patrick. The scene of the production is a British hospital ward somewhere in Burma. Mr. Patrick has been able to bring exceptional accuracy into his picture of the hospital, and into his portrayal of conflicting characters in the ward, because he was himself a patient in a British evacuation hospital in Burma for more than three months...
...Naylor Cragin after giving Prof. R. S. Merriam a hand of arranging the recent union election held for our patient room cleaners. Anyone that can handle Arne Arnello finds such an assignment very simple...