Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Bush delivered a brief and angry eulogy for the two officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development killed two weeks ago in the brutal hijacking of a Kuwait Airways flight bound for Karachi. "We shall know their murderers with the long memories of those who believe in patient but certain justice," said Bush. "Civilized nations can and must resist terrorism and demand that governments have the decency to bring terrorists to justice...
...Nobel laureate, words are a form of "patient resistance...
...takes the form of patient resistance. The history of our people, even as far back as the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century, is that we have to deal with greater powers on our borders, for instance, Germany and Russia. But we also live in the center of Europe. The concept of politicians like Masaryk was to use Czechoslovakia to build a bridge between East and West, across the heart of Europe...
Schroeder's high spirits may dim somewhat, physicians warn, as the hospital staff begins to treat him more like a "usual patient" and less like a celebrity. He will have to come to grips psychologically with being permanently tied to an air-pump system, in much the way that paraplegics learn to accept their wheelchairs. To date, Schroeder's good humor has been strained only once, when he took part in a series of experiments last Monday. Doctors first injected him with Isuprel, Neo-Synephrine and Nitroprusside, three drugs frequently used to treat shock or high blood pressure...
...took 1½ hr. "He was very upset about that but still cooperated with us," said DeVries, adding, "He kind of told me off." Though Schroeder agreed to the tests before the implant, new questions have been raised about the ethics of further experimentation on a patient who has already undergone experimental surgery. Replied DeVries: "If you ask Schroeder what it means being a guinea pig, which we have, he says it's kind of a tradeoff. He gets life and he's able to help people after...