Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subjects on which everybody has strong opinions. TIME editors are not exceptions. We think that the Russians will go as far as the U.S. will let them. We do not think that war with Russia is inevitable, and we think that the best way to avoid war is by patient and firm resistance to Russian expansion-plus a positive, constructive U.S. world leadership. TIME reports and interprets the news of U.S.-Russian relations in the light of these convictions...
...Mario, the new priest, was a patient man; he knew that Italian tempers cool eventually. Last week a small, penitent group came to Mass. There was also a noticeable decline in attendance at Pastor Schreider's sermons. Said Don Mario, beaming gently: "I wager they all, even the black sheep, will come to hear midnight Mass on Christmas. Peace will return...
...patient came into the Yale Plan Clinic a jittery sack. The night before, for the 14th time in six years, he had been arrested for drunkenness. Obsessed by the idea that he had killed his brother (who had caught pneumonia while looking after him), he was in a suicidal mood. Medical Director Dr. Giorgio Lolli skipped preliminaries and applied emergency treatment: relieving the patient's sense of guilt. Said Dr. Lolli, 15 minutes later: "He came in a bum and went out a person. I think he'll come back this afternoon-sober...
This year the Council felt that little could be done towards any considerable revival of tutorial. While expanded enrollments overtax the staffs of most departments, such a revival must wait. However, as you pointed out, this is an issue that should not be left to die. While the patient is in an oxygen tank, somebody's got to keep pumping oxygen...
...this process can compete economically at present with the vats of slimy blue-green mold which produce natural penicillin. But he points out that synthetic methods usually become more efficient with practice and as they are better understood. Eventually, synthetic penicillin may be cheap enough to treat the poorest patient...