Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medical benefits. Social Security recipients may be reimbursed for prescription drugs, especially those required for treatment of chronic illness, such as heart trouble...
...that the ouster had been prompted by racism, and quickly went back to the voters to win reelection. He returned to Congress in 1969, and began paying his fine in monthly installments. He showed up for only nine of 177 roll calls that year, and when asked about his chronic absenteeism quipped: "Part-time work for part-time pay." But his days as a political power were numbered, and in the 1970 Democratic Party primary he finally lost an election-to New York State Assemblyman Charles Rangel, who easily defeated the Republican candidate the following fall. Shaken, Powell retreated...
...Texas neurosurgeon, reports good results with a process called cingulotomy. Boring holes in the skull, he uses an electric current to cauterize and destroy bundles of nerve cells that connect various parts of the limbic lobe, or feeling brain. Performed on 59 patients, some of them schizophrenics or chronic alcoholics, the operation has produced a vast improvement in half, slight improvement in a fourth and no detectable change in the others...
...Medicine, the articles ask for assistance in finding Roberta Brent Smith, 27, who is under indictment for conspiracy to transport illegal explosives across the Arizona-California state line. There is a detailed physical description and explanation of why the request is being directed at physicians: Smith suffers from severe, chronic acne that may cause her to seek medical attention...
...Janet, is something of an inverted play on the now familiar account of the author's life: Burgess, impecunious and convinced he was dying, sat down to write novels as a way of providing a legacy for his wife. Instead of dying, he lingered on to become a chronic writer. Rich, healthy Howard, by contrast, can think of nothing better to do than squander his easy money on a banal overseas tour and then commit suicide. It is not that Howard is outraged or dis gusted by life; he simply does not know what to do with...