Word: chronical
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...used to making themselves heard above the din that they shout even when talking to their wives at home, and they have developed an aptitude for lip reading to understand drink orders. As for the Metropole's manager, he sees a doctor once a week for a chronic headache. He can afford...
...director. Soon, in addition to her visiting teachers, Director Janvier had departments of clinical reading, corrective speech and hearing, psychological testing, special education. The division started classes in hospitals, gave instruction to bed-ridden children at home, trained the stutterers and the retarded pupils, dealt with the truants and chronic delinquents. "Now," says Director Janvier, "I feel we have a division far ahead of any other down this...
...problem with his wits and his own two hands." In the spring of 1955 the U.S. people were confident, but far from smug. Eisenhower and Dulles had not ended the cold war, nor had the people been lulled into thinking it was ended. What had ceased was the chronic crisis, the futile nail-biting, the frustrated tensions that previously surfaced in such phenomena as the pro-and-con McCarthy yawpings. Now, the U.S. had the idea that something constructive could be done about foreign affairs-and the idea of doing something constructive is the idea with which Americans feel most...
Like Louis Armstrong. The facts are somewhat different. The New York City medical examiner's record shows that he died of acute and chronic alcoholism, complicated by pneumonia. An attending physician called it "alcoholic insult to the brain." When Thomas arrived...
...fabulous lode of natural resources? The book quotes the late Economist Wesley Mitchell, who pointed out that American Indians "lived in a poverty-stricken environment. For them, no coal existed, no petroleum, no metals beyond nuggets of pure copper . . . A precarious food supply, flimsy housing, mystical medicine and chronic warfare limited the increase in numbers." Says Dewhurst: "Technology, in fact, can be thought of as the primary resource; without it all other resources would be economically nonexistent . . . Technological progress during the past century, especially since 1900, appears to have been more rapid in the U.S. than anywhere else...