Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never told anyone about his headaches, not even when they became chronic-a round-the-clock ring of obsessive fathers hurling baseball, baseball, baseball at his head. He certainly did not dare to tell his father. The only time Jim ever really interfered with father's ambitions-he sprained an ankle in a skating fall-the old man had a heart attack. After that, since mother Piersall was an invalid too, Jim was the sole support of his family; and as the pressure to make good got stronger, the headaches got worse...
...vote might be so thinly spread among the twoscore Democratic candidates that Republican Hutcheson could skip through with a small plurality. Moreover, while Hutcheson's competition is tough, it is by no means overwhelming. Leading the Democrats is Austin Attorney Ralph Yarborough, a sure vote getter but a chronic loser (three times for governor, once for attorney general). And Liberal Yarborough is bound to lose chunks of the conservative vote to ex-Congressman and Red-Hunter Martin Dies...
Poor little tug, he's a dead bird for that no-hope shicer (John McCullum) who keeps the local rubbedy, where the cow-cockies and swaggies get shickered up on Saturday night. He's chronic, that man, a bit of a bludger, and maybe even a tea leaf. He not only smoodges Smiley into some mauldy business with the abos, but before you know it, he's up to putty with the new schoolteacher (Jocelyn Hernfield)-now there's a basket of oranges!-whom he would obviously like to blackbird...
...science may have reduced it to the status of an interesting rarity. So says famed Cardiologist Arthur M. Master of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital in the A.M.A. Journal. Angina pectoris (literally, suffocating pain in the chest) is caused by sclerosis of the coronary arteries in a clutching, chronic form-less dramatic than the violent seizure of the heart attack, when a coronary artery actually shuts down...
Freshmen can still appeal to the President of the University, as two freshmen with poor heating can testify. Two Yardlings wrote a letter to President Pusey to protest the "chronic lack of heat" in South Weld, and by the next day, the Buildings and Grounds Department had installed new heating facilities in the dormitory...