Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retracing Price's steps, Dingwall & Co. have found many explanations for the goings-on at Borley that require no ghosts to support them. An early rector, to whom some of the first visions appeared, was found to have been a chronic victim of a disease which caused him to sleep, perchance to dream, almost constantly. Price's own unpublished papers reveal that Mrs. Foyster, the young and restless wife of the aged and ineffective rector who followed the Smiths into Borley Rectory, showed a naughty tendency to fake ghostly manifestations. And Price, himself, it turned...
...mind rather than the body. Occasional bouts can be treated with drugs (which have become so popular that a woman patient debated: "I don't know whether to take a Benzedrine and go to a party or take a Seconal and go to bed"). But the chronic variety requires a plumbing of the patient's psychological difficulties. Modell also suggests some nonmedical remedies: changing sleeping habits, eating before bedtime, swigging a nightcap, reading in bed. Counting sheep is not much help...
...package farm program to the Congress, featuring a soil bank that could put $1 billion into farmers' pockets by 1957.) He wanted Congress to look into "an experimental program of flood damage indemnities." He hoped to divert federal funds to help depressed areas, which he called "pockets of chronic unemployment." High on his list was the plan-stalled through 1955-for a ten-year, $25 billion program of interstate highway construction with "adequate" arrangements for financing...
Other clinical descriptions in Dickens' novels are varied and comprehensive enough to make a case book: the post-concussional state of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend, the fatal cerebral vascular disease of Mr. Dorrit in Little Dorrit, the chronic hypomania of the stranger who made advances to Mrs. Nickleby over the garden wall in Nicholas Nickleby. In at least one instance Dickens got the jump on the medical profession: the first recorded instance of the association of narcolepsy (uncontrollable desire to sleep) with obesity occurs in the fat boy of Pickwick Papers...
Furthermore, Ulen has lost the services of Duke Geer, a 440 regular last year, and Stu Ogdon, a developing sprinter; both have been forced off the team by chronic health conditions...