Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vanished, vowing trouble, the ruling military junta issued a panicky decree authorizing plain citizens to shoot on sight "outlaws," i.e., political opponents of the government. The U.S. embassy warned American citizens of the growing danger and began flying families of U.S. officials to Puerto Rico. Reason: in the growing breakdown of law and order, one U.S. citizen had already been brutally killed...
Failure at the Top. In the middle, between repairman and customer, are the manufacturers and big utilities, whose sales and reputations suffer with each new breakdown or complaint. Repairs is one of their major problems, and they are the ones who are working hardest to solve it. Says Judson Sayre, president of the Norge Division of Borg-Warner Corp., waving a letter from a Cleveland housewife: "Look at this stack of repair bills she enclosed. I don't blame that woman one bit. She's unhappy. I'd be unhappy too. It's a failure...
...Yale plan includes no apportionment for faculty salaries, because the Council felt that this was the province of the University Corporation. Breakdown of the fund drive, however, shows $56 million going to "teaching and research, including student aid," whereas only $53 million is allotted to physical "plant and equipment...
...Delhi, Shriman Narayan, general secretary of Nehru's Congress Party, back from a tour of Kerala, reported a "complete breakdown of law and order." Red Minister Namboodiripad was proud of it: he plans, he said, to close many of the state's jails and turn their grounds into public flower gardens. He had already freed many Communists from jail, whatever the charges on which they were convicted...
...cause of all this excitement was the sensational success of the nuclear submarine Nautilus, which cruised 69,138 miles, more than half of them submerged, on a single charge of uranium fuel. She never had a breakdown, and her performance forced the Navy's heavy thinkers to rewrite the textbooks of naval warfare...