Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked Mosa Pijade, the tiny, hunched intellectual who presides over the party's long-range thinking about this chronic indirection and indecision. He began with the standard visionary explanation: "Now you see only the difficulties and restrictions. We have no results yet, but we make big things, hydroelectric plants, steel mills. These take time, much work, manpower, but when the day comes when we can produce, then you shall see." Then he introduced a twist: "When we made the first five-year plan, we were full of ideas we had received and accepted from the U.S.S.R. without any criticism...
Indianapolis' Dr. Philip Durham Seitz suggested that many a chronic scratcher could be cured by kindness and an attentive ear. To his associates, said Seitz, the scratcher often appears as a "cold fish," whereas in reality he is deeply sensitive to slights. When hurt, his only recourse to relieve his anger and gratify his longing for love is by applying the fingernails...
...crushing defeat, but the recurrence of an old leg injury which forced Captain Ed Smith to leave the game with six minutes left to play in the first half. Smith may be able to play against Navy Saturday, but it is now fairly certain that he has a chronic injury which will hamper him all year...
...girl on the blacklist has signed for a book and another student wants it, the latter can, on application to the librarian, remove the original name and substitute her own. Council will review cases of chronic offenders...
...Author Farrell's mealy prose and chronic inability to individualize scene and character muffle most of his stories. In describing a summer stock production in one of the dullest of them, he comes close to summing up his own worst faults...