Word: chronic
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Died. Belisario Porras, 85, thrice President of Panama (between 1912 and 1924), idolized revolutionary before its separation from Colombia; of chronic bronchitis; in Panama City. Peasants hung the old fire-eater's picture near the saints' on their walls. He led a revolutionary expedition on Chiriqui in 1900, captured the capital of the province in hand-to-hand fighting with machetes, proclaimed himself leader of the Isthmus. When peace came after two years of guerrilla warfare he exiled himself, the next year repudiated the new republic because he disapproved its political character. Later won over, he became...
Knowledge about arthritis has increased so fast in the last eight years that last week the A.M.A. Journal published a lengthy report by twelve specialists to bring U.S. doctors up to date on the nation's No. 1 chronic disease...
Arthritis has always bedeviled the human race. The great thermal baths built by the Romans are monuments to the aching bones of the middle-aged Romans who had it. Today, in the U.S., the 6,850,000 people with swollen arthritic joints far outnumber the sufferers from any other chronic disease (including heart disease, hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure). Arthritis causes more days lost from work than industrial accidents, or any disease except nervous and mental ailments...
Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays exists as an emergency telephone number in the mind of nearly every U.S. radical in trouble with the law. For he is a "chronic, old-fashioned liberal," and his favorite pets are underdogs. Hays has another telephone number: he is also a shrewd attorney with a penchant for plunking the mandolin out of office hours...
...Candida type, who decides that financial prosperity isn't all there is to life and decides to look for real happiness. Her husband is equally conventional as a likeable, prosperous business man who can't understand why his wife isn't happy. And then there is the inevitable chronic drunk, Who Has Searched For Beauty In Life And Found Nothing But Emptiness So Has Taken To The Bottle. His language is a sort of drunken allegorical double talk, about climbing to the top of the hill and looking at the horizon: Of course it is he who discloses...