Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Lucius Clay . . . He embodies what I like to believe America is in Europe, firm, patient, quite capable and basically tough...
...Hyland, a good-natured, husky 60, gets all the St. Louis trade, and a lot of Eastern clients besides. In Baltimore, the man to see is testy, trim Dr. George Bennett, a famed orthopedic surgeon and a rabid baseball fan, like Hyland. Dr. Bennett's most recent patient: Joe DiMaggio, who walked out of Johns Hopkins hospital on crutches last week after having a spur cut from his right heel...
...gave especially patient attention to the training of China's new army, lecturing his Whampoa Academy graduates like a Chinese father. There were good reasons. The Communists were still a constant threat to Nationalist China-and Japanese intentions were perfectly plain to Chiang. But in 1931, when Japan occupied Manchuria, Chiang was cautious. He was still building his Whampoa-trained army. Said he: "We exhort the entire nation to maintain a dignified calm...
...Irey had uncovered $476,573,129 in tax deficiencies (the Philadelphia Inquirer's late Publisher Moe Annenberg made the largest single contribution to the Treasury: $8,000,000). At one time nearly two-thirds of all federal prisoners were men jailed as a result of Irey's patient, adding-machine methods...
Elizabeth Bentley, beloved of the tabloids as the onetime "Red spy queen," made a little speech in Rochester, N.Y. to some 1,200 people. She pleaded with her onetime Red comrades to "come out," and urged her listeners to "be patient" with them when they did: "Sometimes the greatest sinners make the greatest saints." Earlier she had told the press about her conversion to Roman Catholicism. In a way, she supposed, it was inevitable: "People who are genuine Communists, as I was, aren't the lukewarm type. They can't go into a vacuum if they give...