Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious and only way to solve the vast problems of the huge, semitropical land. Pious Emperor Charles V, in faraway Spain, tried to end the feudal system that made the Indians worse than slaves (no one was responsible for their care). He wanted the Indians to be given patient, Christian, religious instruction. Planters and priests alike flatly defied the royal edict. When the Emperor authorized his emissary. Bishop Bartolome de las Casas, to enforce the order, there began a battle between the rugged Bishop and his handful of Dominican friars on the one hand, and the furious planters and renegade...
...whose trouble is schizophrenia, is the heroine of Mary Jane Ward's novel, The Snake Pit, which has already caused a mild stir in psychiatric circles, and netted Author Ward over $100,000 in advance royalties. It is based on Author Ward's own experience as a patient in an Eastern mental hospital...
What George Can't Do. If General Marshall looked ten years older on his return to China, as some observers thought, it was not from the shock of disillusion. The patient, war-seasoned soldier had again & again emphasized the real U.S. role in China-the establishment of a political and economic climate in which the Chinese themselves might attain unity and strength. In Chungking this week he was not surprised when each side assured him that the other had started the shooting...
Wilmot and the less patient Laborites began to realize that socialism's clock had been a little fast. There was still plenty of fight left in the Tories. Before the Easter recess they won their first victory: Minister Wilmot announced that the Federation's special report, until then a cabinet secret, would be published...
...Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy and then did a split which almost literally brought down the house. But when Louis, grinning wickedly, pursed his gigantic lips against his trumpet to play / Can't Give You Anything but Love or Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well, patient ears still heard the purest phrasing and most expert blowing around. There was no doubt about it-Louis ("Reverend Satchelmouth") Armstrong, after 30 years in the business, was still the king of the trumpet...