Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schlesinger was forced to agree that centralization of power could lead to evils, but he argued that a certain minimum of centralization was necessary. "Government in the 20th century must maintain a certain military strength and must control certain aspects of spending to prevent an economic breakdown," he said. "These are minimal requirements which we must balance against the tendency toward totalitarianism...
...check was the result of an IRS probe covering the years 1946-52. Asked for a year-by-year summary of the findings, McCarthy replied tartly: "The breakdown is that they found I had paid too much over a period of seven years, that I had reported everything accurately, that I did not take all the deductions I was entitled to take . . . That is all the breakdown I can give you on it. Period...
...Breakdown of New Yorkers' "religio-cultural background," as reported in a j survey by the Health Insurance Plan of j Greater New York: 47.6% Roman Cath| olic, 26.4% Jewish, 22.8% Protestant, 3.2% other and nonaffiliated. Jewish population is decreasing: between 1935 and j 1952 the proportion of Jewish New Yorkers aged 16 to 24 dropped from 31.4% to 24.1%. Protestants of the same age group, meanwhile, increased from 17.8% to 20.9% (this rise was largely due to the growth of nonwhite population...
There were two parts in the Court Martial that no mental patient would play: those of Queeg himself and the judge advocate. They refused to play Queeg, explains Dr. Miller, because they feared that enacting a make-believe breakdown might cause a real breakdown: "They don't want to be identified with mental illness. They want to be normal." Neither would the patients tolerate a familiar, forbidding father-figure (such as Psychiatrist Miller himself) in the part of Queeg. Their choice fell on a "good father-figure": Chester Dowse, amiable chief of the hospital's special services department...
...breakdown of the Dean's List groups, the Class of 1955 also led in every category, having a 3.9 percent in Group I, 13.9 in Group II, and 28.9 in Group...