Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive. But he learned the law and trod a narrow path into Congress 15 years ago. His domed forehead, neat eyeglasses and bland face are often seen presiding over the Committee of the Whole in the Speaker's absence for he is an excellent, patient parliamentarian. The other Michigan men usually vote as he suggests...
...what the class struggle is all about. They are bent upon feverish proletarianization and industrialization of all Russians-including peasants and Kulaks. Having taxed the town capitalist out of existence, they would do the same with the rural "Fist." Against this policy the Peasant President of Russia stands firm, patient and unalterable. Recently he said: "The Government of the Soviet Union must not and does not aim to crush the richer peasants, but simply to stop their undue aggrandizement at the expense of their poorer brethren...
There is no specific treatment. The patient, infected by his own lack of care, must stay in bed for weeks...
...Just as a surgeon does not commit himsa (killing), but practices the purest ahimsa (non-killing) when he wields his knife on his patient's body for the latter's benefit, similarly one may find it necessary ... to go a step further and sever life from the body in the interest of the sufferer...
...objected that whereas the surgeon performs his operation to save the life of the patient, in the other case we do just the reverse. But on a deeper analysis it will be found that the ultimate object sought to be served in both cases is the same, viz., to relieve the suffering soul within from pain. In the one case you do it by severing the diseased portion from the body. In the other you do it by severing from the soul the body that has become an instrument of torture to it. . . . Suppose, for instance, that I find...