Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President got into motion by visiting Bethesda Naval Hospital to call on several ailing legislators-including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, undergoing treatment for a urinary-tract infection. While there, he dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...
...move, fellows," implored the President. "Please don't." Many wounded servicemen struggled nonetheless to sit upright as Johnson walked through the door of Walter Reed Hospital's Ward 34. "I just want to tell you how much your country thinks of you," he called out. "How proud your country is of you. How grateful your country...
...personal visit to the wounded veterans of Viet Nam-many of them amputees-was the President's only means of showing his own gratitude, and he was visibly moved by the experience. Walking through Ward 34 and the officers' Ward 1, shaking hands with each man, his voice sank to a strained, barely audible whisper as he murmured over and over: "Your country is grateful...
...print, including a popular interpretation of the New Testament (The Power and the Wisdom) that is already in its fourth printing and a 900,000-word Dictionary of the Bible, six years in the writing, that both Protestant and Catholic scholars are acclaiming as a classic. Last month Sheed & Ward published his Authority in the Church, a series of reflections on the spiritual understanding of power and rulership. In addition, McKenzie is translating Second Isaiah for Doubleday's Anchor Bible (TIME, Oct. 23, 1964), and he recently signed a contract to write a history of Catholicism...
Pounding Pain. A typical case is that of Ward B. Myers, 38, who was supervising a construction job in Port Angeles, Wash., when his right foot was mashed in a boring machine. The foot became infected, causing osteomyelitis, and surgeons in Seattle's Swedish Hospital spent almost a year trying to save the leg. Myers endured twelve operations and almost constant pain-"like a toothache, it just kept pounding away." Early last month Dr. Ernest M. Burgess, whose team has had more experience with instant prostheses than any other U.S. surgeons, decided that the time had come to amputate...