Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thunderclap. All this time Harry Woodring hung on to his job, helped by Franklin Roosevelt's chronic reluctance to fire anyone. Not until early 1940 did the blowoff finally come. At the President's instructions, Johnson had begun shipping arms and munitions to beleaguered Britain, by arbitrarily declaring them unfit for U.S. use and thus legally available for export. Woodring refused to permit such goings-on. But Roosevelt insisted, and Woodring resigned in a letter so bitter that it has never been published in full...
...ankle injuries. A series of holes about an eighth of an inch deep is burned around the afflicted area with an instrument resembling an electric soldering iron. The "fired" leg, swollen and inflamed, is then painted for ten days with a strong iodine solution. Alleged result: it changes the chronic inflammation into an acute inflammation, and nature cures whatever Is wrong with the knee or ankle...
...been said and written about what Munch will do with the Boston Symphony when he comes here next fall. Unfortunately, much of it is guff. For example, some chronic worriers are predicting that the programs will be overwhelmingly, and for them unbearably French. But an examination of the programs Munch gave with the Conservatory in France proves quite the contrary. An analysis of two full years' programs show that over two thirds of the music played was not French. A surprisingly large amount of all the music Munch programmed has seldom been played in Boston during Koussevitzky's reign. Munch...
...biggest headache, tne island's mushrooming population, there is certainly no quick cure. Emigration to the U.S. has helped to relieve the pressure of chronic unemployment-and made New York the biggest Puerto Rican city in the world. Charter and nonscheduled airline operators, competing fiercely for passengers on the San Juan-New York run, at one time knocked the price of passage down to as low as $10. Last year 260,000 Puerto Ricans were already in the U.S. and the northward flow is continuing. But this transfer of population is at best a temporary expedient. Island officials have...
...broad window in the U.S. Embassy Annex overlooking the Place de la Concorde. "The trouble with this weather," he complained lightly, "is that it makes the French too optimistic about their economy. Rain would be better for their crops." Many an EGA man believed that France, with her chronic slipshod finances and Communist sabotage, was ECA's biggest problem. Bruce was sure France could also be ECA's biggest triumph...