Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakdown of touch is less a matter of semantics than of anatomy: each of these senses, says Foerster, "has its own receptor cells to receive impressions of the outside world, and its own nerve pathways...
Church attendance in the U.S. the week before the poll was 51%; in Britain only 14% of the people polled admitted having gone to church the Sunday before. (In the U.S. 43% of the churchgoers were men, 57% women; no breakdown was given for Great Britain.) Asked about the influence of religion in their countries, 69% of the Americans said they felt that it is increasing; 52% of the Britons said they felt that it is decreasing. In the U.S. 81% look to religion as something that can answer "most of today's problems"; only 46% of the Britons...
...Greeley himself advocated a more equitable distribution of wealth. As editor of an independent, successful newspaper, he "stood at the center of the turbulence as a barometer, a bellwether, a broker of notions and ideas." Though Marx's dispatches were laden with doom-fraught prophecies of social breakdown, Greeley's young managing editor, Charles A. Dana (later famed as owner-editor of the old New York Sun), happily assured his London correspondent: "They are read with satisfaction by a considerable number of persons and are widely reproduced...
...Juan Fangio and Britain's Stirling Moss-will both be driving Maseratis (TIME, Feb. 18), and Portago is inclined to think that the Maserati is too fragile to win. "There's no predicting when a silly thing will stop a driver just as quickly as a major breakdown," says he. A stark example of how "a silly thing"-gear failure-can suddenly alter the picture: Portage's own teammate, Eugenio Castellotti of Italy, who was one of his closest competitors for third place in Grand Prix standings, was killed last week while testing a Ferrari at Modena...
...even scrapped over details of a drunk-driving arrest; the Herald-Post declared that police had beaten the driver, one Isidro Fernandez, and used a chain hoist to haul him out of a ditch. Sneered Pooley, whose cop-baiting helped drive one El Paso police chief to a nervous breakdown: "Ah, such big, bold, efficient lawmen...