Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Murray, Malanism is not a problem of politics or Anglo-Dutch disharmony; it is just one of the symptoms of a chronic disease which she calls "the African sickness"-a complicated ailment that has become so "normal" in South Africa that those who suffer from it are usually the last to know...
...final Eisenhower program, submitted to Congress two weeks ago, embraces none of the Health Commission's recommendations. Instead it will protect the voluntary health insurance companies from unusual losses due to chronic or epidemic diseases--a plan similar to the government's financial safeguard for banks. Insurance companies could then afford to take on poorer risks--aged people with such ailments as rhemmatism, arthritis, tuberculosis, and heart diseases. But the program would lower rates little, leaving nearly one-half the nation unable to afford protection. And the Eisenhower plan makes no provision for increasing the flow of doctors from medical...
Drawing on the historical background of his first address, Stevenson concluded that even without the threat of Russia, the U.S. would be faced with "the revolution of rising expectations"--Stevenson defined this as pressure from the Eastern world for engineering aid, industrialization, and relief from chronic unemployment...
...Outstanding failure of 1953 was Britain's chronic failure-getting coal out of the ground. In 1953, coal production fell more than 1,000,000 tons from the preceding year. And British industry's progress toward modernization still had a long...
Such racial amiability, rare in the Rhodesias, was an outward and visible sign of the racial partnership that Britain hopes will one day characterize all British Africa. But it could not disguise the inward spiritual conflict that threatens Rhodesia with chronic black-white strife. Lyttelton had come to make his own reading of that conflict. Its heart is the growing fear of a white minority surrounded by black men who no longer are satisfied to be seen and not heard...