Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone but the Communists and a few chronic dissidents had voted yes for De Gaulle. Yet it also seemed clear that the voters of France and of the overseas territories-now known as the Community, like Britain's Commonwealth-had gone to the polls not so much to vote in a new constitution as to vote out an old. What united Frenchmen as dissimilar as Hubert Beuve-Méry, neutralist publisher of Le Monde, and the royalist pretender, the Comte de Paris, Prince Napoleon and Brigitte Bardot, cloistered Carmelite nuns and a nameless million voters who had previously...
...Michael: Negative. It's a chronic thing; happens once or twice a year. Over...
...fact, over 60 per cent of the students polled favored a plan for skipping three meals a week (provided they could get the others through coupons, if necessary.) In this number, of course, are chronic breakfast-skippers, those who can afford to eat elsewhere and students who might like to try a Syrian restaurant on Sunday night, if they didn't feel they were paying for the meal twice. In a metropolitan area, eating out can be as valuable a part of college life as the dining hall...
Particularly encouraging was the team's performance on defense against passes and end sweeps, which in recent years have becom almost chronic Crimson weaknesses. Once thwarted in the middle of the line, Tufts sent a few feelers around the flanks but was quickly discouraged in this line of attack by the varsity's ends, who reacted outward nicely, keeping themselves between the sideline and the ball carrier...
...year-old father with chronic heart trouble expected his oldest son to support the family. When the son abruptly left home to join the Navy, the father felt hopeless and his condition worsened. After the son wrote that he would not come home on his first furlough, the father wound up in the hospital. A day later he died of ventricular fibrillation...