Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year: patient Cordell Hull. He kept faith with America...
...Senators on both sides of the aisle, Whence comes the offense? How long shall we endure, how long shall we be patient, how long shall we forbear to assert our self-respect, to demand our rights as men and Americans, and to find our place in the sun of this our blessed land...
...shrewd, patient little Mr. Benes, President of the Czechoslovak Government in Exile, Moscow was an end to months of anxious waiting, a fulfillment of great hopes, a beginning for postwar Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe. The day after his arrival, he stood in the Kremlin beside his friend and patron, Joseph Stalin. Together they watched while Molotov and Czechoslovak Ambassador Zdenek Fierlinger signed a treaty of friendship, mutual assistance and postwar collaboration-a pact that may serve as Russia's basic plan for other Central and Eastern European nations...
...seafaring Thomas Dover, who (circa 1730) combined to an unusual degree the callings of doctor and pirate. Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever. He prescribed a powder with opium (to make symptoms subside) and ipecac (to make a patient sweat and give him "a sense of progress...
...Kretschmer's blunt boo gains force from his experience with eleven castrated patients who had some prostatic tissue cut out besides: "Three of the patients are dead [after] five, eight and eleven months; one patient is bedridden, requiring frequent doses of morphine; three patients have pain; one patient had painful urination and attacks of hematuria [bloody urine]; only three say they are improved after eleven, seven and three months respectively." (Procastration doctors say that Dr. Kretschmer is wrong to discount the initial improvement in his patients, even if it is short-lived...