Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American public, suffering through assassinations, war, technocracy, revolt and recession, had eventually to suffer metal fatigue. "Systems die, instincts remain" observed Oliver Wendell Holmes. Unable and unwilling to rely on institutions or revolution, the U.S. has fallen back on pure feeling. The reaction is ominously reminiscent of the '30s and '40s, an epoch beyond the memory of the young?who nonetheless repeat its rhythms...
...Nolen is now chief of surgery at Meeker County Hospital in Litchfield, Minn. But The Making of a Surgeon is no tale of easy triumph -or comfort to people headed for the hospital. The point of this impressively honest memoir is that surgeons learn by doing, and patients often suffer in the process. As Nolen tells it, trial and error is still the only way to develop the skill and gall that a first-rate surgeon requires...
...appetite at mess. Says the superintendent of West Point, Major General William A. Knowlton: "It has always been our experience that disciplined units suffer fewer casualties than slovenly ones. 'Dirty Dozen' outfits exist only in the movies...
...never been knocked out while winning 46 of 54 fights. He is so crude he can make the classiest opponents look bad. Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier found out the hard way: in the process of winning two decisions from Oscar, the champ was flattened twice and had to suffer through 25 punishing rounds. Now it was Ali's turn. He was still fresh from a swift third-round T.K.O. and he needed a real tune-up before his own bout with Frazier...
...Maddocks' Essay, "In Praise of Reticence," was a point well taken. But since his subject was reticence rather than noise, he might have done well to include the suffocating written word as well as the spoken one. For while it is true that . . . Most of us suffer in some degree From cacoethes loquendi, Yet some who deplore it at length seem to be Afflicted with ditto scribendi...