Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Tydings: "In the last war the only powder . . . this scoundrel . . . ever smelled was in the presence of ladies who might have adorned the windward side of the parade ground ... A perpetual, chronic, revolving liar...
...F.D.R. (sympathizing with Hull): "A chronic liar...
...cause of Buerger's disease is unknown. Many, but not all, patients are cigarette smokers (smoking constricts the small arteries). The King's doctors are reported to have ordered him to stop his heavy smoking. Most patients with Buerger's disease also have acute or chronic epidermophytosis (fungus diseases of the skin like washerwomen's itch or athlete's foot). The disease occurs most frequently between the ages of 20 and 45 (the King will be 53 Dec. 14). Doctors do not know why, but men victims outnumber women...
...hopes that PRIDC's program will make some 300,000 new industrial jobs by 1960. He also hopes to double the number of Puerto Ricans (5,000 in 1948) who go to the U.S. as migratory farm workers. Even that will not eliminate Puerto Rico's chronic labor surplus. For that, Muñoz has only one remedy: orderly but large-scale emigration. One movement he wants to discourage at all costs is the sort of undirected emigration that last year added 28,000 unwanted Puerto Ricans to the slums of Manhattan, Chicago, Gary and Lorain, Ohio...
...convinced himself that he could no longer postpone "the problem of growing up." He read Dostoevsky, Proust and Aquinas and explored the defects in his own character. At Christmas time, walking by the shore near Cancale in Brittany, "I was on the point of bumping myself off. This was chronic." He came out of this period of self-examination, he now feels, "much kinder and more tolerant-able to form satisfactory, sensible attachments...