Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first half did not seem to dappen competitive spirits, but it did hamper ball handling. For a pleasant change, it was not Harvard that suffered from fumblitis, however. On several important occasions Princeton killed its own motion with bobbles, usually committed on the snap. The Crimson, which has suffered chronic difficulty in holding the ball, fumbled but once in the half, and on that occasion Harvard recovered...
...first step, the Health Services will issue a pamphlet this month emphasizing that long-time cigarette smokers are more susceptible to lung cancer and chronic bronchitis than non-smokers...
...government, said Home, its choice "is whether to treat the country as a chronic invalid, taking its temperature and feeling its pulse every five minutes to see if it is strong enough to be told the facts of life, or whether to assume that the body politic of the country is robust and its mind mature and its heart sound and to tell the people what the hour demands, confident they will rise to the occasion. The country has a right to assume that men's minds will be as modern as the machinery they tend, that private enterprise...
Cornell has developed a case of chronic inconsistency, a disturbing disease which struck last Saturday in the presence of the Colgate Red Raiders. During the week several injuries have also developed at Ithaca. These might normally be fatal, but this week's opponent is a rather weak Lehigh. Look for Gary Wood to salvage enough of a team to carry the Big Red through, but do not expect much of a runaway...
...Turkey will be by far the Market's poorest sister. Two-thirds of its 30 million people are illiterate, more than 10% of its work force is unemployed, and per capita income averages $200. Foreign trade, which swings around agriculture, is in chronic deficit. This year Turkey will export $370 million-mostly in aromatic tobacco, cotton, hazelnuts, sultana raisins and Smyrna figs-but its imports will amount to $640 million, largely in machinery. With its population growing by 1,000,000 a year, while its capital markets remain skeleton-thin because of a lack of personal savings, Turkey sorely...