Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stassenites were not perturbed by the fact that many in the U.S. thought of them as impractical zealots, or that Stassen's Gallup poll rating had sunk in the last 15 months from 34% to 15%. They listened with patient and slightly puzzled expressions to a question-&-answer joke which politicians of both parties were happily repeating among themselves...
...Came First. The only known visitor to the kappa country is Patient No. 23 in an insane asylum near Tokyo, who claims to have lived for months in the land of the kappa. No. 23 found the kappa pleasant, if unpredictable people, with their traditions often the reverse of human customs. They believe, for example, that the first kappa was a woman, who could not abide living alone. God pitied her and, taking her brain, created a male companion. His only instructions to the new couple were to eat, multiply and live as expansively as possible...
...Cincinnati's Good Samaritan Hospital, Obstetrician Joseph Crotty had trouble believing his ears. He thought he heard a baby's cry issuing from the abdomen of a maternity patient. The doctor listened carefully, finally decided that it was, indeed, a baby's cry. An hour later, still wailing lustily, the infant girl was born (and was followed by an unprotesting twin sister). Dr. Crotty had called in other doctors, and so had witnesses to vouch for his story...
...retina (the eye's inner nerve coat) is torn loose from the choroid (the spongy surrounding membrane that normally supplies the retina's nourishment). The space between the retina and choroid fills up with fluid, gradually enlarging the break. As the undernourished retina deteriorates, the patient's vision blurs, eventually fails...
Stillman infirmary's wards were as quiet as a mausoleum for no ominous reasons last Sunday with only one patient, and only one other moved in yesterday to preserve a record health mark for the University, and the year's all-time illness...