Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party and the pleasure of the Laborites, announced that the boom had gone too far. Britons were buying too many of their own goods, exporting too few to maintain the island's economic balance. One immediate result: 1955's first half saw Britain's chronic trade deficit rise by a walloping $767 million over the same period a year...
...easy to misunderstand this new mood as narrow provincialism, selfishness or irresponsibility. But in fact it was a lot healthier than the global nail-biting that had preceded it. Chronic crisis and creeping frustration had produced some ugly effects in the U.S., the most conspicuous being the emotions roused pro and con a weightless opportunist named Joe McCarthy. Now McCarthy had receded to a mere smudge on the political landscape. His decline is part of the restoration of the U.S. picture to its proper perspective...
Temporary Short Cut. B.C.M., a 50-year-old office manager, was a case in point. When he entered Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he had drained his bladder through artificial tubes for 27 years, suffered almost constant pain from chronic ulcers of the bladder. This week B.C.M. was ready to leave the hospital with a bladder as new as an infant's, as the result of a remarkable operation that causes the patient to grow a completely new bladder after the old one has been removed...
Patients who need new bladders are not likely to worry much where they come from. The new operation spells hope for thousands afflicted with such common bladder ailments as cancer or chronic ulcers. "It's by no means a panacea for everybody with bladder trouble," says Dr. Bohne. "But the new procedure will replace the reservoir and will, we believe, prevent the kidneys from becoming infected, a result that frequently caused untimely deaths after the older method of radical surgery and the insertion of permanent catheters [artificial drainage tubes] into the kidneys. And if, for example, we can eradicate...
...used to making themselves heard above the din that they shout even when talking to their wives at home, and they have developed an aptitude for lip reading to understand drink orders. As for the Metropole's manager, he sees a doctor once a week for a chronic headache. He can afford...