Word: chronical
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...making that choice, let us remember that there is not a page of American history, of which we are proud, that was authored by a chronic complainer or prophet of despair. We are doers. We have a responsibility, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history, but to shape history; a responsibility to fill the role of pathfinder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law that will protect our citizens, defend our interests, preserve our values and bequeath to future generations a legacy as proud as the one we honor today...
...your front door. Nor is it easy trying to make a living with only a limited education and without a firm command of the English language. Nor is it easy supporting your family after being forced to give up your job in a garment factory because of severe chronic asthma...
...have always wanted to be a doctor because my mother is a chronic asthmatic, and when I was nine I used to think she was going to die a lot of the time," he says. "Every time she would go to the emergency room it was me to like she was being revived again; so I envied this power that this physician had to influence someone's quality of life and actually save lives...
Under pressure from the Student Council, seven house masters agree to standardize rules allowing parental visits. The Council had complained that "lack of uniformity in regulations from House to House encourages Violations in that small, chronic group of offenders...
Just, a Washington journalist in the early '60s, writes from experience. But there is no master clef to this roman. Axel reads like a composite rather than a copy. He has spent more than half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World War II. His marriage to Sylvia, a wellborn New Yorker and poet, was a mismatch. "Government's the opiate of the patrician masses," she tells him shortly before walking out. Her parting shot is that Axel, former oss operative and friend of Presidents, has "too many secrets, not enough mystery...