Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, believe me, are not smart enough to have single-handedly created the Communists of Europe." Europe's chronic ills-overpopulation, maldistribution of goods and wealth, the failure of its educated class to provide leadership, the selfishness of its wealthy-"these are the facts which create Communists...
...reaching into the pockets of chronic violators, the long arm of the University police forcibly has drawn attention to its new policy of enforcing ignored parking regulations and has added an extra item on many term bills...
Middle class folks,* the doctors reported in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, are particularly prone to psychosomatic (mindbody) troubles and chronic illnesses. One big reason is the American yen for "making good." The middle class works especially hard at trying to make good. The constant effort produces strains and tensions (people "feel the necessity to improve their condition, rather than to enjoy their existence"), which in turn produce unhappiness and maladjustments...
Social climbing is something the doctors specifically warn against: "We have been able to show that among patients with chronic disease in general, with duodenal ulcers and with thyroid disorders there is an unusual number of social climbers and strainers, that is, persons who want to improve their social status...
Occupational Ailment. In Saxonburg, Pa., Susan Stewart, 100, was chosen "oldest [doughnut] dunker in America" by the National Dunking Association, but had to turn down a trip to New York because of chronic indigestion...