Word: chronic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Sukarno's ambitious attempt to resolve his country's chronic crises by executive fiat got off to a crackling start last week beneath the lofty colonial ceilings of the summer palace at Bogor, 30 miles up in the Javanese hills from the sweltering capital of Djakarta...
...radio signal tracer, an R.F. generator, an oscilloscope, a vacuum-tube voltmeter, a pile of TV parts. Self-educated in math, he taught his students algebra and trigonometry, did not hesitate to pile on the work ("Brother, I really load them"). Though some of his students had been chronic troublemakers in the prison, they soon reformed. All have been perfectly willing to spend hours each night wrestling with such assignments as: "Draw up six different parallel circuits, showing voltage at each point, voltage dropped at each point, the current flowing at each point, and the total current flowing in each...
...typify believably the two best kinds of fighting men. The lieutenant is the steady, intelligent, responsible leader of men; the sergeant is the gifted killer. On Director, Anthony Mann's restraining leash, Actors Ryan and Ray work with a held-back intensity that admirably suggests the low-grade, chronic anxiety that fighting men run like a fever...
...A.D.L. plans have borne fruit. A plan to use caustic soda in projected paper and rayon plants uncovered a highly important use for a byproduct chlorine. The chlorine, which seemed useless, can go into making sodium pentachlorophenate-a chemical that kills the river-borne parasites causing bilharziasis, a disease chronic in Egypt for centuries...
...Power Within You, by Claude Bristol and Harold Sherman (Prentice-Hall; 85,000 copies), is about as noisy as the mental dynamite it promises to detonate-that something which will "release you from chronic nervous tensions, chase the butterflies out of your stomach . . . and enable you to face things you've been running away from, for years!" The authors rattle on like pneumatic drills and 200 pages later bore through to the autosuggestive heart of the matter: "Your main, over-all theme in life, of course, is: 'I am going to succeed in everything I undertake...