Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bipartisan Uproar. Mitchell apparently believed that he had been more than reasonably patient. Nevertheless the announcement, and the tactless manner in which it was handled, caused a bipartisan uproar. Only a few hours after Morgenthau received the letter asking for his resignation, the Administration named Whitney North Seymour Jr., a capable New York lawyer and former assistant U.S. attorney, as his successor. The net effect may be to force Seymour to wait until Morgenthau quits or until his term expires...
...Benefits. For these reasons, Britons are turning to the private alternative. When a patient pays his own bills, he can set the date for his operation and count on getting the surgeon he wants. He will recuperate not in a bustling ward but in one of the 4,398 private beds that N.H.S. sets aside in its hospitals for those willing to pay. He may also receive as many visitors as he wants; in an N.H.S. ward the limit is two at a time for an hour a day. Many privately insured patients undergo operations at the expense of N.H.S...
...build ratings, the ceremony was delayed through an insufferable hour with Diller and Singer Florence Henderson. The rites were relatively decorous-and held down to ten minutes so that there were no commercial interruptions. The cameras stayed discreetly behind the couple as they vowed "to be sweet, gentle, kind, patient, not puffed up, charitable, slow to anger and swift to forgive...
...been organized in many states. Longtime consumer activists profess amazement that the public has waited so long to fight back. Until lately, amateur, part-time buyers have felt unequal to challenging professional, full-time sellers. Says Peter Drucker, author of The Age of Discontinuity: "We have been a very patient people by and large. Now people are fed up, and 1 do not blame them...
...friendship, hope, and despair-everything would burst out of those rocks in which my predecessors had seen nothing but the disorder of nature." It is an outcry that invites both admiration and pity, a strong but unstable mixture that Mujica-Lainez keeps bubbling with an alchemist's patient intensity...