Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard Herrick, 23, a former coast guardsman of Northboro, Mass., had suffered a breakdown of kidney function (because of chronic inflammation) when he was admitted to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital a year ago. An artificial kidney tided him over that crisis, but lately Richard's kidneys have shown less and less ability to recover after successive attacks...
Petersburg, needled Russia with a masterly seriocomic study of a chronic lazybones whom he called Oblomov. The book was largely ignored by readers rushing to buy the latest novel-A Nest of Gentlefolk-by Turgenev. Literate Russians eventually recognized Goncharov's genius, but after nearly a century, his major work is still little known in the West. Probably no finer introduction exists than the supple, perceptive new English translation (the first in 25 years) by David Magar-shack, himself the author of two good biographies of Chekhov and Turgenev...
...worked while attending Fordham University and went to Brooklyn Law School for a year. Then iritis, a chronic eye inflammation, forced him to quit school. Today he often wears dark-tinted glasses, cannot stand bright lights or smoke-filled rooms, must rinse his eyes some half a dozen times...
...first time, after many years of waiting. Italy has a government willing to pass from the defensive to the offensive in this fight against subversion," said Rome's 11 Tempo. The Cabinet announced one project after another: an extensive public-works program to alleviate Italy's chronic unemployment, a big housing program, a new income-tax law providing six-month prison terms for Italy's notorious tax evaders. But after ten months in office, Premier Mario Scelba's government has failed to get even one of its major proposals enacted into law. In Rome...
...times. There is only one mental aberration in which these two symptoms coexist: in the psychopathic personality, essentially antisocial, conscienceless, inclined to violence in behavior, and liable to loss of identity in the group, gang, mob or herd. The psychopath is a rebel without a cause-hence, in a chronic state of mutiny. He strives solely for the satisfaction of his moment-to-moment desires. Raw need is all that drives...