Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of Europe's sickness last week, underlying its dollar deficiencies, its currency distempers, its lack of pep and its chronic sweat and tears, was a shortage of one grubby product-coal...
...dismember a grasshopper, Payne wrote The True Adventures of Princess Sylvia. His manuscript showed a youthful disdain for humdrum fact, e.g., he set Princess Sylvia to reign not only over Denmark, but over all of Asia as well. The main thing was that his writer's itch turned chronic. This week, at 40, he published his 43rd book, a biography of General George C. Marshall...
...congressional investigating committee and include groups "which have not been officially designated...or are so new that no official agency has had a chance to report on them as yet. They, however, follow the usual Communist line, have been enthusiastically promoted by the Daily Worker, and have had the chronic fellow travellers as members...
...Evidence Here." The death certificate reported that Elizabeth May Ayres had died at 3:40 p.m. of "chronic myocarditis, chronic nephritis, carcinoma of the colon." Dr. Thomas L. Chiffelle, who was pathologist at Yale medical school at the time, testified that her body had been received a few hours after death and was soon embalmed. Said Pathologist Chiffelle : his examination did not confirm the causes of death listed on the certificate. Because of the embalming fluid, he could not make a satisfactory study of the blood in her body. Neither he nor a toxicologist could say what had caused Lizzie...
...inventory, two psychologists-H. H. Remmers of Purdue University and Robert H. Bauernfeind of Carleton College-questioned 6,000 school kids on every sort of problem from "I have to go to bed too early" to "I hit my sister." One-fourth of the children, they found, are chronic hypochondriacs, worried about all sorts of aches and pains (e.g., "I have a thumping . . ." "Sometimes I get real dizzy"). And almost as many are worried because "I am not nice-looking...