Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakdown of French negotiations with the Tunisian nationalists. This is the deepest of all Mendès' disappointments, because he had looked on Tunisia as a beginning, whereas all the other hard decisions taken were endings...
What had caused Harris' fatal hemorrhage? The doctors had no exact term for it, but they knew what had happened: Harris' liver had suddenly quit producing the body elements that cause blood to clot. Whether the liver's breakdown was the end result of an infection or earlier injury, the autopsy failed to show...
Richard Herrick, 23, a former coast guardsman of Northboro, Mass., had suffered a breakdown of kidney function (because of chronic inflammation) when he was admitted to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital a year ago. An artificial kidney tided him over that crisis, but lately Richard's kidneys have shown less and less ability to recover after successive attacks...
...suit was costly both in money (an estimated $5,000,000 for the defense, including $750,000 in hotel bills alone) and in men: the defense required a battery of 33 lawyers; the Government's key attorney was forced to drop out of the case with a nervous breakdown while he was preparing the case for trial...
...patient, a former salesgirl in a Baltimore five-and-dime store, married young and had two children. But after each birth she had a nervous breakdown. Estranged from her husband, she had three more children illegitimately, and each time suffered what psychiatrists call a "schizophrenic reaction, catatonic type." Still only 25, she is now at Maryland's Springfield State Hospital. Her brothers and sisters and her husband agreed that for her own good she should be sterilized. In a lucid interval she agreed...