Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since seizing power 13 months ago, Strongman Sarit has spent most of his time abroad undergoing treatment for a chronic liver ailment in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, and then in Britain. Back home, his Chart Sang-khom Party seemed safely in control of two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, after an election he had decreed; his own man, General Thanom Kittikachorn, was Premier; young King Phumiphon was carefully holding himself above politics and giving no encouragement to the opposition. When a Soviet attaché and a Tass newsman spoke slightingly of Sarit this month, the government...
...London Daily Sketch (circ. 1,304,892), chronic boudoir skulker and chronicler of overcrowded love nests, the juicy tidbit was irresistible. For sale by Freelance Reporter Lee Benson: the ghosted lament of auburn-haired, toothsome Jane Buckingham, 23, on-and-off model and nightclub hostess, who declared that she had reigned in the heart of Prince Shiv of Palitana until dethroned fortnight ago by another of Shiv's girls, slinky Hungarian Actress Eva Bartok...
...political-science teacher at St. Mary's College and a special protege of Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler, is trying for the third time to win the seat now held by Freshman Republican F. Jay Nimtz, 42. With South Bend and its Studebaker-Packard plant a chronic unemployment troublespot, Brademas was touted a winner in 1954 and 1956-and lost both years. This time, with Brademas harping on the still-evident recession and labor going all out against Indiana's right-to-work law, Brademas is given his best chance ever...
...nation, no adequate economic base for its rapidly growing population, now 85 million. Only its Moslem religion unites it-and most of its politicians have no desire to see a theocratic state run by the mullahs. Corruption and instability compound Pakistan's woes. Food shortages are chronic, and foreign-exchange reserves are at an alltime low. Only last month, in East Pakistan's Provincial Assembly, the Deputy Speaker of the House was fatally injured in a parliamentary brawl (TIME...
...Monkey Glands. Today's medicine, having taken up the challenge of infectious diseases (the greatest killers of the young down the ages) and conquered most of them, comes now to the challenge of the processes called "chronic diseases" -a term with an unfortunate implication of hopelessness. Today's medicine men neither seek nor expect miracles. They put no stock in parthenotherapy, such as David tried when he took the young Shunammite woman to his bed-though the idea won medical-intellectual backing in the 18th century, is now suggested obliquely by Lolita and Humbert Humbert. Neither have they...