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  • Unfortunately, they had been mistaken; Max was suffering from chronic heart disease.†   (source)
  • Retraining should also succeed: 'Contentment' messages will (1) counteract a brainswept tendency to question, and (2) lessen the chronic mournfulness effect.†   (source)
  • Chronic insomnia was one of them.†   (source)
  • And the tribe of chronic masturbators.†   (source)
  • She bats John's hand away when a bout of her chronic coughing hits her.†   (source)
  • On the mantel above the constantly smoldering fire—wherein the logs were either chronically wet, or else the coals had been left unstirred for hours—there was a crèche with cheaply painted wooden figures.†   (source)
  • To Werner, he looks capable of severe and chronic violence.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was a home with a chronically ill relative who was interested in regular examination by a young person who would listen endlessly to ailments and take precise notes.†   (source)
  • They seemed to be modifying their usual attitude of floating, chronic disapproval.†   (source)
  • All that cycling gave him chronically sore shoulders.†   (source)
  • For his father had a point; the only person who didn't take Gogol seriously, the only person who tormented him, the only person chronically aware of and afflicted by the embarrassment of his name, the only person who constantly questioned it and wished it were otherwise, was Gogol.†   (source)
  • A chronic chill kept her from feeling warm, in spite of being covered with her heavy woolen bedspread.†   (source)
  • The disbelief of the chronically hungry.†   (source)
  • They were used now to stomach-aches and a sort of chronic diarrhoea.†   (source)
  • It was done eight years ago in New York City by Dr. Chester Southam, a cancer specialist who injected live cancer cells into chronically ill elderly patients.†   (source)
  • As bright as he was, he was clumsy; his flat voice, his habit of breathing through his mouth due to a chronically blocked nose, gave him the appearance of being mildly stupid instead of excessively smart.†   (source)
  • Another girl is frantically asking a nurse about the difference between "chronic medical conditions" and "pre-existing medical conditions."†   (source)
  • We were still ten kilometers from the village when my chronic backache spread to a deep, rock-hard contraction across my lower belly, and I understood with horror that I was in labor.†   (source)
  • Of course they did not know this, they only wanted to take the land for rubber, but the Olinka have been eating yams to prevent malaria and to control chronic blood disease for thousands and thousands of years.†   (source)
  • It was when they landed at the Memphis airport that Big Mike's chronic housing problem became a crisis.†   (source)
  • Pardon me if I overwhelm you; it is a matter of chronic anger with me.†   (source)
  • It gets better: Edward's wife, Leonora, knows all about it, and in fact may have stage-managed its beginning to keep the chronically straying Edward out of a more disastrous relationship.†   (source)
  • Chiron went through a long list of other injuries they had experienced during the first three-legged death race, all of which he hoped to avoid this time: second-degree burns, burst eardrums, a pulled groin, and two cases of chronic Irish step dancing.†   (source)
  • "Rarely do chronic conditions such as obesity," the CDC scientists observed, "spread with the speed and dispersion characteristic of a communicable disease epidemic."†   (source)
  • Night sweats, unusual bruises, fatigue, chronic fevers?†   (source)
  • His chronic cough had taken on a jagged edge, an element of irresponsibility.†   (source)
  • Lamp has thirty beds upstairs for chronically mentally ill people who are ready to come in and work with counselors and therapists to plot the next step.†   (source)
  • Aside from his defective vision, he suffered from chronic constipation, which forced him to take enemas throughout his life.†   (source)
  • I slept with Grandmother Baxter, who was afflicted with chronic bronchitis and smoked heavily.†   (source)
  • Had a chronic cough which five days ago increased, became productive—yellow-green sputum but no blood—and was accompanied by deep chest pain.†   (source)
  • 'Part of it is the PTSD-Peter's response to chronic victimization.†   (source)
  • He mixed in the dark with the practiced, steady, and heavy hand of the chronic drinker.†   (source)
  • Ellis is a Chronic came in an Acute and got fouled up bad when they overloaded him in that filthy brain-murdering room that the black boys call the "Shock Shop."†   (source)
  • It was during that trip, perhaps as a result of the chronic food shortage, that C. J. had taken to eating termites.†   (source)
  • A clean-cut and energetic thirty-two-year-old from Marietta, a suburb north of Atlanta, Anderson had battled a lifetime of chronically low self-esteem and a nagging feeling that there was something about himself that wasn't quite right.†   (source)
  • It was now a chronic infection.†   (source)
  • S/he experiences hallucinations, vomiting, chronic migraines, memory loss, and/or fainting spells.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't a runaway success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for "chronic halitosis"—a then obscure medical term for bad breath.†   (source)
  • He'd been assigned to submarines after his first tour on destroyers had been cut short by chronic seasickness—and perhaps because he did not resent the close confinement aboard submarines, something that many men cannot tolerate.†   (source)
  • One of my patients, a thirteen-year-old boy, had been suffering from chronic headaches for four years.†   (source)
  • In the beginning, I pictured him as very tall and thin with a chronic cough, speaking the few words of Italian he knew with a terrible accent, one of those sad people who are never at home anywhere.†   (source)
  • Like other chronic alcoholics, his skin was a sickly yellow.†   (source)
  • For a time, she made daily visits to the slums as part of a frenzied charitable activity, which gave her chronic bronchitis and brought no peace to her tormented soul.†   (source)
  • He had poor eyesight and chronic sinus trouble, which made war especially exciting for him, since he was in no danger of going overseas.†   (source)
  • This is how it goes: A certain Dembscher owed Beethoven fifty florins, and when the composer, who was chronically short of funds, reminded him of the debt, Dembscher heaved a mournful sigh and said,Muss es sein?†   (source)
  • "Listen to this," he said, reading: " 'containing old tilestones and brickebats for chronic costiveness'!"†   (source)
  • Thus for one lone stretch of time I lived with the intensity displayed by those chronic numbers players who see clues to their fortune in the most minute and insignificant phenomena: in clouds, on passing trucks and subway cars, in dreams, comic strips, the shape of dog-luck fouled on the pavements.†   (source)
  • Second thought, tuberculosis, alcoholism, some other chronic process.†   (source)
  • Strange it was that the British commander-in-chief, known for his chronic gambling, seemed to give no thought to how his American opponent might play his hand.†   (source)
  • First he was put in the dementia ward for chronic long-term patients who are completely unable to take care of themselves.†   (source)
  • But when I get up to investigate, I always find my mother sound asleep, looking innocent the way chronically guilty people do sometimes.†   (source)
  • More cartilage and tendon tissue were lost from the chronic inflammation.†   (source)
  • Dewey one was a deeply black boy with a beautiful head and the golden eyes of chronic jaundice.†   (source)
  • After Kennedy complains of his chronic back pain, Monroe phones her friend Ralph Roberts, an actor and masseur knowledgeable about back issues.†   (source)
  • He was thirty-eight, but his chronic weariness made people think at times that he was older than his brother.†   (source)
  • But the ongoing trouble, the chronic, complicated difficulty of the kind Patrick Hickey's parents have faced the last few years of his life is the one that shakes me from all my confidences.†   (source)
  • He had a history of chronic if mild abuse.†   (source)
  • Chronic and severe.†   (source)
  • We have a chronic labor shortage, a hard worker doesn't starve.†   (source)
  • To put it kindly, perhaps accurately, you were known to have a chronic illness called alcoholism.†   (source)
  • "You'll have restricted movement, you'll require a cane to walk, you'll have chronic pain."†   (source)
  • The rather desperate wreck of a father, a chronic lush and also something of a womanizer; the mother, slightly unbalanced and a grim pietist, known throughout the upper-middle-class, country-club and high-Episcopal echelons of the city for her long-suffering tolerance of her husband's mistress, herself a social-climbing dimwit from the sticks; and the daughter finally, poor dead Maria, doomed and a victim from the outset through all the tangled misunderstandings, petty hatreds and…†   (source)
  • First, I don't think he had any fun; second, I think he was really lonesome, maybe in a chronic state; and third, he didn't do a single thing that couldn't be predicted—didn't break a glass or a mirror, committed no outrages, left no physical evidence of joy.†   (source)
  • Peter, in fact, was starting nothing worse than a common cold - the type that is almost chronic among people who fly long distances and experience sudden changes in temperature - and this cold was now being aggravated by the plateau dust.†   (source)
  • It's as quiet as the tomb, and the poor girl has a chronic cold-gets sneezing fits and looks as if she'd like to drop through the floor.†   (source)
  • He had never, so far as she knew, complained, about his sickness or pain, or his poverty, and chronically, insanely, as he made excuses for others, he had never made excuses for himself.†   (source)
  • Through the other half of the night, the doctor's calls came to him over the telephone-all chronic cases.†   (source)
  • That year in New Jersey lives in my mind as though it were the year during which, having an unsuspected predilection for it, I first contracted some dread, chronic disease, the unfailing symptom of which is a kind of blind fever, a pounding in the skull and fire in the bowels.†   (source)
  • A sort of chronic remorse went with him everywhere, although not strong enough to make any decided change in his course; and this very remorse reacted again into indulgence.   (source)
  • chronic fatigue syndrome
  • chronic uneasiness
  • Despite being a chronic alcoholic, he was, in the appraisal of one doctor, a man of "fine physique."†   (source)
  • They all still suffer from that pesky 'chronic mournfulness effect."†   (source)
  • For Hyman's lawsuits, see William A. Hyman v. Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (42 Misc.†   (source)
  • Chronically mentally ill patients are sick, she says, and sometimes dangerously so.†   (source)
  • One man in Louie's squadron had chronic, stress-induced nosebleeds.†   (source)
  • He had chronic insomnia and facial neuralgia.†   (source)
  • And shortly thereafter went in to a long and distinguished career of chronic alcoholism.†   (source)
  • He was sick, had been suffering chronic pain for a long time…… I don't know.†   (source)
  • He was two hundred pounds underweight and chronically tired.†   (source)
  • Why that chronic air of suspicion, as if they were waiting to be hurt?†   (source)
  • ACUTE AND CHRONIC BLOOD LOSS ETIOLOGY GASTROINTESTINAL.†   (source)
  • -and comes running back to the hanging Chronic to rip off another trophy and tie it to his girdle.†   (source)
  • I hate to say this, Yossarian, but you're turning into a chronic complainer.'†   (source)
  • JFK's face is puffy from his chronic hypothyroidism.†   (source)
  • He had a chronic, hacking cough, although he didn't smoke.†   (source)
  • And then there is the issue of his chronic physical pain.†   (source)
  • And close the dorm doors and not wake up every slobbering Chronic in the place.†   (source)
  • His chest ached and he coughed chronically.†   (source)
  • We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do not live in chronic dread of disaster.†   (source)
  • They could sense I had been singled out as the only Chronic making the trip.†   (source)
  • He is taking antispasmodic drugs to ward off his chronic colitis and diarrhea.†   (source)
  • He turns and looks over at the Chronic side and sees there's something to what she says.†   (source)
  • I see a Chronic float into sight a little below me.†   (source)
  • The old Chronic next to me has been dead six days, and he's rotting to the chair.†   (source)
  • This new redheaded Admission, McMurphy, knows right away he's not a Chronic.†   (source)
  • The Chronics across the way had stopped milling around and were settling into their slots.†   (source)
  • The Chronics and the Acutes don't generally mingle.†   (source)
  • Ellis and Ruckly are the youngest Chronics.†   (source)
  • Chronics: sit on your side and wait for puzzles from the Red Cross box.†   (source)
  • Chronics are in for good, the staff concedes.†   (source)
  • All of the Acutes are smiling too, now, and even some of the Chronics.†   (source)
  • Only Scanlon and-well, I guess some of the Chronics.†   (source)
  • Across the room from the Acutes are the culls of the Combine's product, the Chronics.†   (source)
  • One chronic complaint was that the Imperium ignored "vital questions"—and so it did.†   (source)
  • The chronic scarcity of officers strongly affected my duties in Blackie's Blackguards.†   (source)
  • To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need.†   (source)
  • Radar said, "I don't want to criticize, but maybe on this particular topic, the person who is chronically late needs to listen to the person who is always punctual.†   (source)
  • It is not uncommon for doctors to be chronic overachievers; Beck wasn't the first physician to go overboard with a new hobby.†   (source)
  • …reading, and drawing about death and/or depression Suggesting that the person would not be missed if s/he were gone Self-injury Recent loss of a friend or family member through death or suicide Sudden and dramatic decline in academic performance Eating disorders, sleeplessness, excessive sleeping, chronic headaches Use (or increased use) of mind-altering substances Loss of interest in sex, hobbies, and other activities previously enjoyed Alaska displayed two of those warning signs.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza could never believe that so significant a name for them both was indeed a historical coincidence and not another conceit born of Florentino Ariza's chronic romanticism.†   (source)
  • In 1984, during an expedition to Nepal's Annapur terious disease that had degenerated into a chronic on na Massif, he'd been stricken with a mys.†   (source)
  • "Significant stress in early childhood," they write, " …. result{s}in a hyperresponsive or chronically activated physiologic stress response, along with increased potential for fear and anxiety."†   (source)
  • The years of military rule had exacerbated the chronic malnutrition, and tuberculosis had risen markedly in the region.†   (source)
  • The person often experiences this instability of self-image as chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom.†   (source)
  • Quite apart from my chronic duplicity with Mrs. Barbour—constant late nights at the library, a nonexistent history project—it would be embarrassing to admit to Hobie that I'd claimed Mr. Blackwell's ring was a family heirloom.†   (source)
  • We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracize and minimize.†   (source)
  • In adult life these chronic near misses pulsed with a messier and much more painful anxiety: I would be stricken with panic to learn, or remember, or be told by some implausible party that she was living across town in some terrible slum apartment where for reasons inexplicable I had not gone to see her or contacted her in years.†   (source)
  • Also see patient lawsuit, Alvin Zeleznik v. Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (47 A.D.2d 199; 366 N.Y.S.2d 163; 1975).†   (source)
  • In that time, Jim figured, they'd have to treat about two thousand chronic mdr patients and cure at least 80 percent.†   (source)
  • The person often experiences this instability of self image as chronic feelings of emptiness or boredom.†   (source)
  • From December through March, when the nights were cold and the north winds made living outdoors unbearable, he was taken inside to sleep in the bedrooms in a cage covered by a blanket, although Dr. Urbino suspected that his chronic swollen glands might be a threat to the healthy respiration of humans.†   (source)
  • A fragrant favorite involved saving up intestinal gas, explosively voluminous thanks to chronic dysentery, prior to tenko.†   (source)
  • The first document in the stack was a Washington Post article from 1958, three years after Elsie's death, with the headline: OVERCROWDED HOSPITAL "LOSES" CURABLE PATIENTS Lack of Staff at Crownsville Pushes Them to Chronic Stage The second I read the title, I flipped the article facedown in my lap.†   (source)
  • The prices of second-line antibiotics continued to decline, and the drugs now flowed fairly smoothly through the Green Light Committee to, among other places, Peru, where about 1,000 chronic patients were either cured or in treatment.†   (source)
  • My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was just I'd sobered up a bit, no longer the chronic waste and splendor of those blazing adolescent drunks, our own little warrior tribe of two rampaging in the desert; maybe this was just how it was when you got older, although it was impossible to imagine Boris (in Warsaw, Karmeywallag, New Guinea, wherever) living a sedate prelude-to-adulthood life such as the one I'd fallen into.†   (source)
  • Among the POWs was a chronically unwashed, ingenious, and possibly insane kleptomaniac named Mansfield.†   (source)
  • And Southam probably would have continued doing this for years had he not made an arrangement on July 5, 1963, with Emanuel Mandel, director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, to use the hospital's patients for his research.†   (source)
  • When he's on duty at the Brigham, Farmer runs the hospital's AIDS service, and he's handled Ti Ofa's case as he would have in Boston, treating various opportunistic infections with antibacterials, until the infections become chronic.†   (source)
  • But poor Andy —even before he was skipped ahead a grade—had always been a chronically picked-upon kid: scrawny, twitchy, lactose-intolerant, with skin so pale it was almost transparent, and a penchant for throwing out words like 'noxious' and 'chthonic' in casual conversation.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless because of the chronicity of the illness and the basic deficiencies involved in personality structuring, a more complete recovery is not to be expected at this time.†   (source)
  • Only weeks after a previous entry declared her healthy, one of the doctors wrote, "The patient looks chronically ill.†   (source)
  • A chronic acquirer, Jefferson is not known to have ever denied himself anything he wished in the way of material possessions or comforts.†   (source)
  • What if it were possible for autism— for mind-blindness—to be a temporary condition instead of a chronic one?†   (source)
  • Money went for the antifungal salve, for antacids to lessen the chronic churning in his intestines, for the food he could stomach, for his dictionaries, for subway fare.†   (source)
  • 'Even when a battered woman is not immediately under physical threat, she psychologically believes she is, thanks to a chronic, escalating pattern of violence that's caused her to suffer from PTSD.†   (source)
  • But you could work them out…. and thereby avoid the chronic sickness of representative government, the disgruntled minority which feels—correctly!†   (source)
  • Frank's chronic pericarditis, arising from the rheumatoid arthritis, led to a virulent infection of the pericardium, which ultimately led to heart failure.†   (source)
  • She tended to their sore throats and their chronic coughs and their assorted aches and pains and the illnesses they had carried from the third world to the first.†   (source)
  • Suffering from bouts of diarrhea and a chronic disorder of the urinary tract, caused apparently by an enlargement of the prostate gland, he depended for relief on large doses of laudanum.†   (source)
  • Miguel rented a small apartment near the place where he worked, and this was where they made love; in the year they had spent frisking naked in the basement they had both contracted chronic bronchitis, which dampened somewhat the attraction of their subterranean paradise.†   (source)
  • It was the beginning of a chronic problem for Seabiscuit, who loved eating so much that he often followed up his regular meals by consuming his own bedding.†   (source)
  • The colonel, if you are curious, has chronic, severe pain from a shrapnel wound suffered in the early years of the war, in Manchuria, and he chooses to relieve himself of it.†   (source)
  • But with the cutbacks, syphilis increasingly became a chronic disease, and the disease's carriers had three or four or five times longer to pass on their infection.†   (source)
  • Ghosh was removing a foot so destroyed by chronic infection that it had become a weeping, oozing stump.†   (source)
  • However, the Terran Market is so large and food shortage so chronic that reduction in profit from increase of export is not a major factor.†   (source)
  • All this, I realize, is probably fatherhood in a nutshell, but I'm sure it's true that for most these instances are what they are, momentary and situational and thankfully rare, and not, as in the case of Sunny and me, our lives' chronic bout.†   (source)
  • His blue-eyed companion, ten years younger, was as pink-faced as if he had been boiled—and plagued by a nervous smile that he couldn't control, as if chronically unsure of himself.†   (source)
  • He was one of those chronic young men who go around whining about their sensitive feelings, when they're well past forty.†   (source)
  • He was handsome and unattractive, a swashbuckling, beefy, conceited man who was putting on fat and was tormented chronically by prolonged seizures of apprehension.†   (source)
  • But doesn't happen often and tends to be self-correcting; chronic offenders, or unfortunates who can't correct, aren't likely to reproduce, seeing how choosy women are.†   (source)
  • There is something exemplary to the sensation of near-perfect lightness, of being in a place and not being there, which seems of course a chronic condition of my life but then, too, its everyday unction, the trouble finding a remedy but not quite a cure, so that the problem naturally proliferates until it has become you through and through.†   (source)
  • He talked to platoons of reporters, smiled at endless pictures, gave out statements, telling world he placed great confidence in Federated Nations and was sure our just claims would be recognized and that he wanted to thank "Friends of Free Luna" for wonderful help in bringing true story of our small but sturdy nation before good people of Terra—F. of F.L. being Stu, a professional public opinion firm, several thousand chronic petition signers, and a great stack of Hong Kong dollars.†   (source)
  • They were nervously blank; they showed nothing but the sagging weight of lethargy and the staleness of a chronic fear.†   (source)
  • In the city, she had lived in chronic tension to withstand the shock of anger, indignation, disgust, contempt.†   (source)
  • She glanced at Eddie; he looked like a man worn by fighting one more of the attacks of disgust which he was learning to endure as a chronic condition.†   (source)
  • There was a dim tone of panic in her voice, but it was the stale panic of chronic helplessness, not the sound of an emergency-except for an odd echo of fear in her mechanical insistence.†   (source)
  • And then Rearden thought suddenly that he could break through Philip's chronic wretchedness for once, give him a shock of pleasure, the unexpected gratification of a hopeless desire.†   (source)
  • The telephone threw him back into exile: it was screaming at spaced intervals, like a nagging, chronic cry for help, the kind of cry that did not belong in his world.†   (source)
  • A young man with a look of chronic hurt and impertinence together, rushed up to him, crying, "I couldn't help it, Mr. Rearden!" and launched into a speech of explanation.†   (source)
  • I would not surrender them to the educational systems devised to stunt a child's brain, to convince him that reason is impotent, that existence is an irrational chaos with which he's unable to deal, and thus reduce him to a state of chronic terror.†   (source)
  • There is reason, she thought, why a woman would wish to cook for a man …. oh, not as a duty, not as a chronic career, only as a rare and special rite in symbol of …. but what have they made of it, the preachers of woman's duty?†   (source)
  • She could not remember by what steps, what accumulation of pain, first as small scratches of uneasiness, then as stabs of bewilderment, then as the chronic, nagging pull of fear, she had begun to doubt Jim's position on the railroad.†   (source)
  • And to such among you who hate the thought of human joy, who wish to see men's life as chronic suffering and failure, who wish men to apologize for happiness-or for success, or ability, or achievement, or wealthto such among you, I am now saying: I wanted him, I had him, I was happy, I had known joy, a pure, full, guiltless joy, the joy you dread to hear confessed by any human being, the joy of which your only knowledge is in your hatred for those who are worthy of reaching it.†   (source)
  • Cuffy Meigs' terror had wider roots, it embraced all of existence; he had lived in chronic terror all his life, but now he was struggling not to acknowledge what it was that he had dreaded: in the moment of his triumph, when he expected to be safe, that mysterious, occult breed-the intellectual —was refusing to fear him and defying his power.†   (source)
  • Even though he didn't come into the hospital till he was better than fifty, he'd always been a Chronic.†   (source)
  • Fear and guilt are your chronic emotions, they are real and you do deserve them, but they don't come from the superficial reasons you invent to disguise their cause, not from your 'selfishness,' weakness or ignorance, but from a real and basic threat to your existence: fear, because you have abandoned your weapon of survival, guilt, because you know you have done it volitionally.†   (source)
  • Pete's been a Chronic all his life.†   (source)
  • During the pause one of his pupils stargazes around and sees the gutted Chronic dangling by his heel.†   (source)
  • But I know it isn't the stink that keeps them away from the Chronic side so much as they don't like to be reminded that here's what could happen to them someday.†   (source)
  • Ruckly is another Chronic came in a few years back as an Acute, but him they overloaded in a different way: they made a mistake in one of their head installations.†   (source)
  • Actually there isn't much need for them to say anything, because, other than me, the Chronics don't move around much, and the Acutes say they'd just as leave stay over on their own side, give reasons like the Chronic side smells worse than a dirty diaper.†   (source)
  • But since it will be largely the Chronic patients who remain here in the day room with the speaker-most of whom are restricted to lounges or wheel chairs-one aide and one nurse in here should easily be able to put down any riots or uprisings that might occur, don't you think?†   (source)
  • She stopped when she got to the middle of the day-room floor and saw she was circled by forty staring men in green, and it was so quiet you could hear bellies growling, and, all along the Chronic row, hear catheters popping off.†   (source)
  • Everybody had been herded into the day room by the black boys, Chronics and Acutes alike, milling together in excited confusion.†   (source)
  • And when he finishes shaking hands with the last Acute he comes right on over to the Chronics, like we aren't no different.†   (source)
  • He suggested the speaker might be turned up louder so the Chronics with auditory weaknesses could hear it.†   (source)
  • The black boys anchor the condom by taping it to the hairs; old Catheter Chronics are hairless as babies from tape removal.†   (source)
  • He comes on down the line of Chronics.†   (source)
  • Chronics are divided into Walkers like me, can still get around if you keep them fed, and Wheelers and Vegetables.†   (source)
  • She rolls her eyes for the black boys, but they are off tying Chronics in bed, nowhere close enough to help in a hurry.†   (source)
  • McMurphy comes down the line of Chronics, shakes hands with Colonel Matterson and with Ruckly and with Old Pete.†   (source)
  • None of the other Chronics did that.†   (source)
  • It's hung on the wall right above the log book, right square in the middle between the Chronics and Acutes.†   (source)
  • Most Wheelers are just Chronics with bad legs, they feed themselves, but there's these three of them got no action from the neck down whatsoever, not much from the neck up.†   (source)
  • But there are some of us Chronics that the staff made a couple of mistakes on years back, some of us who were Acutes when we came in, and got changed over.†   (source)
  • The Acutes line up at the glass door, A, B, C, D, then the Chronics, then the Wheelers (the Vegetables get theirs later, mixed in a spoon of applesauce).†   (source)
  • Even the old Chronics, wondering why everybody had turned to look in one direction, stretched out their scrawny necks like birds and turned to look at McMurphy-faces turned to him, full of a naked, scared hope.†   (source)
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