Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient. Once during U.N.'s London meeting, Bevin and Vishinsky were discussing Greece in card-table metaphors. Said Vishinsky: "No etot tuz ne nasto yashchi." The patient interpreter's first try: "But this ace is a funny one." Vishinsky did not like it. The interpreter tried again: "This ace is not a genuine one." But Vishinsky was not satisfied until the sentence swelled to: "The ace which Mr. Bevin pulls out of the deck of cards is not an absolutely normal...
...Much Medicine? The basic trouble, according to Outman: "The Government has continued to handle the peace as though it were a depression. The 'emergency' planners have tried to doctor up a once healthy situation with so many panic policies that industry, the unwilling patient, is sick from too much of the wrong kinds of medicines...
...shrewd, soft-spoken Confucian. As chairman of the Council, China's mellow statesman seemed to remember the wisdom of the Analects: "Men are born pretty much alike, but through their habits they gradually grow further and further apart from each other." Imperturbable, patient, conciliatory, Dr. Quo sought to bridge the chasm of habits. His logic was simple and overwhelming (when Gromyko asked why the chairman had halted discussion, Dr. Quo answered: "I have no more speakers on my list...
Chest surgeons would like an anesthetic for electric-knife operations that will put and keep the patient under with no danger of blowing the patient up. Both ether and cyclopropane are inflammable, and the wound-cauterizing electric knife, a useful aid to modern surgery, can act like a flaming match when brought near lungs filled with inflammable...
University of California Medical School doctors this week claimed they had the answer: a mixture of curare and nitrous oxide, potent enough to put the patient under, paralyze his respiratory muscles. In 68 chest operations in which the new anesthetic had been used, surgeons had wielded the stuttering electric knife without an internal explosion...