Word: chronicic
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Still looking for their victory, the stickwomen ficed a very strong UPenn squad. The Crimson defense played brilliantly. but the squad's chronic inability to score allowed the Quakers to leave Cambridge with a 1-0 victory...
...heroics, he calls for a tolerance difficult to sustain. Granted that if the six were played by "normal-sized" actors, the film would lose all of its staying power; yet depending on these men of limited height, experience, and acting ability becomes a drag. Cinematographer Peter Bizou probably has chronic back pains from keeping the camera down on a level to make them look correct, but all the efforts in the world cannot negate the fact that these are tiny freaks of nature (It's hard to ignore their apparently knuckle-less fingers). In one ostensibly dramatic scene, a dwarf...
...first meeting with Westerners since assuming the party leadership, Jaruzelski promised resolute action during a 45-min. discussion with a group of TIME editors and businessmen. Dressed in an olive-drab uniform, and wearing the dark-tinted glasses he needs because of a chronic eye inflammation, Jaruzelski joked briefly about the fact that he was First Secretary of the party, Premier, Defense Minister and general of the army, but received "only one salary-and much smaller than that of the President...
...rigorous road to glowing health. Pick up a racket, and you run the risk of a sprained ankle, twisted knee or tennis elbow. Condition your heart by pumping over hill and dale on a racing bike with low-slung handle bars, and you can come up with chronic low back pain. Play softball and be prepared for torn knee ligaments and broken fingers...
...nearly two years a Soviet expeditionary force of 85,000 troops has propped up Afghanistan's Communist regime against a motley but tenacious resistance movement. Soviet intervention in Afghanistan has become a chronic irritant in East-West relations: Secretary of State Alexander Haig reiterated U.S. outrage in his talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations a month ago, and the Afghanistan issue will probably be debated in the U.N. General Assembly next month. Most Western press coverage of the conflict has come from listening posts in Pakistan and India and from reporters who have slipped...