Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land put Soviet Russia astride half the world, had no more intention than they had ever had of cooperating with the West, save in brief tactical moments. Did his outburst mean that the fanatics of the Kremlin were condemning not only the peaceful part of the world, but the patient Russian people, exhausted by years of dictatorship and permanent economic depression, to World War III? Only the Kremlin knew. Certainly, more conflict lay immediately ahead at U.N. This week, the Assembly's steering committee voted (over strenuous Russian objection) to add George Marshall's new proposals...
...such inadequacies many a Brazilian answers: "We must be patient." As well as the next man, Washington Luiz knows that Brazil, despite her more than 400 years of history, still has a way to go on the road to democratic freedom. The important thing is that she is well on the road...
...Polio specialists have learned that psychotherapy is as important as physical care: toughest hazard in polio treatment is the patient's panicky fear of the disease...
...charge for a bed is a dollar a night and with it come linen, blankets, bed lamp, hospital bed-tables, convenient plumbing-but no nurses: the Annex residents, it is clearly understood, are not patients. In fact, no patient has ever been assigned to the Annex, which has remained unopened ever since it was built last spring as a precautionary measure...
...principal and contrasting figures are the French adventurer and comedy writer, Beaumarchais (he wrote The Barber of Seville), who procured arms for the Continental Army, and the 71-year-old sage, Benjamin Franklin, first Minister to France. Feuchtwanger does best at picturing Franklin's patient and crafty life in the grassy suburb of Passy, writing and printing his bagatelles of satire on his own hand press, enjoying his hot bath in a lidded tub of his own design (on which visitors could sit while he soaked), gravely carrying on his gallantries with French women and using his popularity...