Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days Simla seethed with secrecy, bubbled Math optimism. Then the conference suddenly stalled. In this political pinch, Lord Wavell was patient. At issue was the question: should the Moslem League have sole right to nominate the Moslem ministers in India's projected new government? Mohamed Ali Jinnah said yes. The delegates of the All-India Congress, which also includes Moslem members, claimed the right to nominate at least one Moslem minister. The factions agreed to adjourn until July 14, so that their working committees could try to work out some compromise...
Head-Hunters & Glamor. Sir Charles who became a constitutional monarch in 1941, has found it even more difficult to maintain discipline over his glamorous family than over his head-hunting subjects. Despite his patient parental plaints that there are no legal princesses on Sarawak, his three daughters continue to be dubbed Princesses Gold, Baba and Pearl. Leonora Margaret (Princess Gold) pleased her father when she became the second wife of the late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape. Less pleased was the Raja when his daughter Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandleader Harry Roy, and his youngest daughter, Nancy Valerie (Princess...
...hostility for things British. Now we are unanimous on the following points: the Tommy gets very low pay compared to the G.I.; he receives nothing to compare with the Yanks in the matter of food, amenities, and recreational facilities; he does very little complaining ; he is a splendid patient; he is very friendly toward...
...proved its thesis: that an adless paper could pay (if the proprietor is rich enough and patient enough to take years of losses). It had not proved, even to the proprietor's satisfaction, that advertising does a paper any special harm. Last week, in his 20th-floor paneled Park Avenue office suite, Publisher Field admitted that his adless daily may start to run ads as soon as paper is plentiful again. Said he musingly: "I think readers like...
...bite fever, the original wound heals temporarily, later opens again, larger and more angry-looking, a rash develops, temperature rises to 103° or 104° F., falls to normal in a couple of days, then rises again in cycles which may recur for months. The patient may grow thin, have muscle pains, delirium, arthritis. Treatment is similar to that for syphilis and saves nearly every case...