Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, founding (1925) boss of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Lester B. Granger, executive secretary for the National Urban League. The four were mindful of the President's recent exhortation to Negro publishers that Negroes be "patient" in their quest for full civil rights, and Wilkins, for one, had criticized Ike roundly. As a result, both the Negro leaders and the President kept their guards up and their tempers down...
...triple play-from right thigh to left stump, later from there to the right foot. This kept Kilpatrick in a grotesquely distorted and uncomfortable position. And the flap died in the first stage. A second try, abdomen to wrist to foot, failed in the final stage. With his patient still game ("I hated, for Dr. Kelly's sake, to have those flaps go bad"), the surgeon tried again...
...negotiating process, and for the purpose of formalizing agreements already arrived at, rather than at the beginning and as a means of starting the wearisome process of accommodation ... It is not the hectic encounters of senior statesmen under the spotlight of publicity which we need; it is the patient, quiet, orderly use of the regular channels of private communication between governments...
...Profits. The tools devised and marshaled for the jobs were 1) tax exemption, 2) unabashed encouragement toward high profits even when based, as at first, on low wages, 3) patient coddling of the fearful and uninformed investor with every kind of assistance. U.S. Federal income taxes do not apply in Puerto Rico, and any new business not provably running away from U.S. taxes or unions was freed from the island income tax for ten years. Profits could and did run to 60% of sales; Fomento Chief Moscoso says: "We found this not too high a price...
...president of Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, longtime (1936-53) personal surgeon to the late Queen Mary; in London. When the stricken Rudyard Kipling was rushed to the Middlesex Hospital in early 1936, Webb-Johnson operated for a perforated ulcer, but was unable to save the patient...