Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maximum area. His troops in the western end were going hungry, running out of fuel, felling trees and laying mines in the path of the advancing Allies. The next move was up to the German. The preliminary accounting of this battle was still plainly in his favor. Time, the patient bookkeeper, had not yet presented him with a final bill...
...salt water which covered much of Walcheren (82 square miles) had undone the labor of generations. The once-rich soil would need five years, after dikes had been mended and sea pumped out, to become fruitful again. But the villagers, who remembered past floods and patient replanting, thought of life's struggle in longer terms. Of their dead fruit trees and flowering hedges they said: "Our children will live to see them again...
These and many other sights filled another week of patient waiting on the part of all concerned--waiting till Keith Miller can persuade Prof. "Bill" Cunningham to give one of his inimitable train imitations...
...Department: a plastic artificial eye which, besides being unbreakable, has been found by the Army to be superior in many ways to the best custom-made glass eyes. Carefully made to duplicate a patient's natural eye shape and coloring, the plastic eye is lighter than glass, fits better, can be moved by the eye muscles, costs less than $5 (against $300 for a custom-made glass...
...Manhattan, New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that in California a psychiatric patient was asked if he were Napoleon. He craftily said "No." A lie detector showed he was lying...