Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo became Premier last August after one of Italy's chronic Cabinet imbroglios, a cynical Roman politician ventured a prediction: "Colombo can't last through autumn. This may be precisely why he will." What he meant was that after five governments in 27 months, warring factions in the four-party governing coalition might let things ride for a while. If Colombo, too, were to topple, the result might be expensive and uncertain national elections...
Mike deals mostly with children. One small client, born with half a nose, learned to face the world without excessive self-consciousness. An asthmatic child whose parents had once been afraid to let him exercise developed enough self-assurance to control his asthma attacks without medicine, and a chronic bedwetter learned to keep dry. Among adults, a professor was taught to ride a bike so that he could go out with his son, and a frail teacher, taunted by students in his rough high school, learned self-defense. So far, Mike has worked with neurotics. But he is becoming interested...
...effort at the Democratic nomination, in 1952, quickly collapsed because of his unshakable racial attitudes. Russell remained in the U.S. Senate for 38 years. There he alternated between outdated parochialism and respected service in the national interest. When he died at 73 last week of the complications of chronic lung disease, the Senate's ranking member and president pro tem was remembered for what he had accomplished-and by some for what he might better have left undone...
...fact that Duvalier has finally arranged for a successor after 13 years of absolute rule suggests that he may be succumbing to chronic heart disease and diabetes. There were rumors in Port-au-Prince, in fact, that his doctors had ordered him to quit as President. There was one small problem, but Haiti's obedient National Assembly last week overcame it by voting unanimously to lower the constitutional minimum age for a President from 40 to 20 and giving Papa Doc the legal power to name his successor. For good measure, the government decreed that Jean-Claude is really...
...students still say-"The Indian will never fight, only work." "The Indian is basically happy because he knows nothing better." "Races bred in cold places are more volatile than those bred in low hot places. Coupled with chronic malnutrition, this produces in the Indian an almost complete acceptance and passivity." This deep racism is almost totally unconscious, probably because the whites are somewhat schizophrenic about it, telling you of their Indian blood and erecting statues to legendary Mayan heroes. If the guerrillas have not totally eradicated this racism, it will make forming a rural base almost impossible...