Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy is guilty of no gross censorship, he is at least chargeable, in the opinion of his critics, with an array of annoying misdemeanors. He has betrayed a chronic tendency to regard the press as a personal tool of high utility. He has refined the use of the calculated leak, a common Capitol device. Among the White House press corps, his favorites may fluctuate, but its top echelons generally include newsmen who are also close Kennedy friends. And the President has become a past master at choosing the right reporter to loft trial balloons...
...main dangers of the immediate effects, according to Klerman are that the subject could hurt himself by for example misjudging distances, and that the physiological changes induced by the drugs might accentuate a chronic illness, like a liver condition...
...burning open fireplaces had already poisoned the air sufficiently to help kill Samuel Johnson in 1784. Now, combined with auto exhausts, oil and other chemical fumes, they are killing Britons in droves. London's Epidemiologist Donald D. Reid noted that although British physicians call the resulting lung disease chronic bronchitis, it appears to be essentially the same as American doctors' "pulmonary emphysema," now being reported with increasing frequency. Wherever it occurs, this kind of lung damage might as well be called "the English disease," said Dr. Reid...
...Worker is one of eleven Communist periodicals still published in the U.S. Once a daily with 100,000 circulation, it now struggles into print only twice a week. It is a chronic beggar, surrounding its dialectic with incessant pleas for cash. Ads come hard. Its chief, and sometimes its only, account is Harry's Clothes Shop on Third Avenue, an establishment that knows an out-at-elbows tovarish when it sees one, and offers him suits for $10 to $15, alterations free. The Worker's editor is James Edward Jackson Jr., 48, a mustached man who rose...
...Silver Star for leading raiding parties aboard Japanese craft and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Yet for all such exploits-and despite his heritage as a member of one of Massachusetts' most celebrated Yankee families-Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, 42, until last week was a chronic political loser...