Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada's increased reliance on the U.S. caused misgivings among Canadian nationalists. It might also aggravate one of the nation's more galling economic problems: the chronic trade deficit with the U.S. To ease the strain, U.S. defense authorities have agreed to buy more defense supplies in Canada. Seattle's Boeing Airplane Co. has already placed an order for Bomarc components with Montreal's Canadair...
...good committee. If he kicks loose from the party traces too often, a Gentleman from Iowa, say, may find himself a member of the Merchant Marine & Fisheries Committee ("I don't mind them voting against the party sometimes," says Rayburn, "but I don't like it to be chronic...
...appointment with the project psychologist for children whose lives are impossibly tangled, or give out small sums from project funds to help buy food. One measure of his success: not one of the project's teen-agers has been in real trouble; normally 10% would have become chronic troublemakers...
Like many another newborn nation, the Kingdom of Morocco has sadly discovered that independence provides a brief, heady celebration but cures no chronic ailments. Two years after Morocco gained its freedom, its economic and political problems have piled so high that King Mohammed V was prompted only last month to remind his people: "It is not going to rain gold and silver. The seeds of independence will not yield their fruit in a day. Our sons and grandsons will pick them." Less poetically, the King confided to a friend: "The French never gave me half as much trouble...
...Cardiac neurosis" is more widespread than laymen-or many doctors-realize. In the A.M.A. Journal three specialists report on a six-year study of 27 New England patients (including the conductor). All complained of chronic chest pains; all were exhaustively studied and found free of physical heart disease. To most of them, neurotics at heart, this was not really news; they had already had this word from several doctors. Such unsatisfactory verdicts sent them to still other doctors until they got the grave diagnoses they wanted...