Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Failure. The mother, a chronic "baby-carriage pecker" since childhood, resigned herself to having no children after eight years of sterility, then conceived. She kept her son on bottle-feeding until he was five, babied him in other ways. At 14 the boy was referred to a child guidance institute by a teacher for impudence, defiance, tantrums, gambling. The mother refused to mitigate her control in the slightest. Result: at 25, the boy was married to a model who supported him, was still lazy, bad-tempered, irresponsible, a braggart...
Artie Shaw broke up his band again after he was ordered into a hospital for two weeks' rest. Reported trouble: "a generally run-down condition," chronic cold...
...remarkable drug for holding down chronic symptoms is Bulgarian belladonna, steeped in white wine. (An American substitute is now available.) In many cases the drug relieves insomnia, helps build up strength, improves speech...
Died. William F. Gettle, 54, oil-wealthy Arcadia (Calif.) kidnap victim in 1934; of chronic liver trouble; in Beverly Hills...
...There are two main forms of sinusitis. The acute form is accompanied by a watery discharge or pus; the chronic form may be wet or may have no pus, no dripping, but a thickening of the membranes, which sometimes become swollen with little buds called polyps...