Word: chronicic
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...full-bodied sound, with the kind of focus and control that was totally absent in the Princeton group. The latter has the same basic sensitivity, but they lack the sheen and polish that make the Harvard Glee Club so irresistible in spite of everything. Both groups suffered from the chronic ills of large choruses: slipping intonation, unbalanced voices, cheating on high notes...
...Newsman Harry Reasoner in the simple three-story frame house in Brookline, Mass., where President Kennedy and three of her other eight children were born. 'To give courage to other mothers because so many people are discouraged about their children," Mrs. Kennedy mused about her son's chronic tardiness and lack of discipline at boarding school. She told how "the President" heeded her motherly advice to wear a striped tie on TV because it looked chic, and to keep his hands out of his pockets. Throughout her recollections, she was at once a nostalgic mother and a gallant...
Devaluation was the inevitable answer to chronic economic ills. Last year Finland's gross national product was $8.6 billion, showing a mere 2.2% increase over the previous year, and well down from the average 5% growth rate during 1960-65. More than a fifth of the national income comes from exports, mostly to Western Europe. Slackening economies, particularly in Great Britain and West Germany, have cut Finland's export earnings. Meanwhile despite restrictive government policies and tight credit, imports remain high and the trade gap is running at $220 million for the second consecutive year. Unemployment has gone...
Bugging. The court has agreed to rule on whether seamy, sex-oriented publications and movies may properly be banned for juveniles. Another case asks whether a chronic alcoholic can constitutionally be jailed for public drunkenness. The court will have to mull over the traditional judicial reluctance to interfere with prison administration when it reviews a federal court order to desegregate Alabama jails and prisons. It will also decide whether prohibition of draft-card burning is unconstitutional (as the First Circuit Court of Appeals has held) or constitutional (as the Second and Eighth have held...
...description applies just about as well to any of the nation's other three metropolitan subways. Riding underground in the U.S. is such an un pleasant experience that countless potential passengers simply avoid it, and their lost fares contribute significantly to chronic operating deficits...