Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last June 30, said Kenneth Williamson of the Health Information Foundation,* the U.S. people paid out $10.2 billion for medical and dental services and goods (over and above the billions spent by federal, state and local governments), and only 15% of it was covered by insurance. The $10.2 billion breakdown...
...mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World War I (nervous breakdown following brain fever); one of his fellow patients was a German soldier who had lost his leg, and carried about a piece of wood in his arm. Over the whole broods the specter of "Mother Europe," gorged with the blood of her dead...
Thermostat. In West Bend, Wis., angered by the breakdown of his heating system, Henry Schroeder wrecked it with a hammer, shattered four living room windows, when his wife called police, floored the assistant police chief, after an hour's struggle wound up in jail...
...completely different-the men want women, and the women want men") and invented, as well as borrowed, quite a lot of amusing stage business. Betsy von Furstenberg shines as the amoral Eve who wants to settle down without settling up; Hollywood's Gig Young persuasively proves that the breakdown of modern society began with Ibsen's A Doll's House, and Franchot Tone-though cut from pure theatrical cardboard-nevertheless acts with sufficient weight to hold the farce in place on the stage...
...bookstore traffic. Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind skillfully defined a political and philosophical tradition whose qualities are often misinterpreted, even by its friends. In Five Gentlemen of Japan, Frank Gibney explained briefly and readably what more formal scholars have failed to explain: the Japanese national character, its breakdown in World War II, and the reasons why free nations can now welcome the Japanese to their company. Of the trickle of foreign books critical of the U.S., the most sensible and understanding was Italian Luigi Barzini Jr.'s Americans Are Alone in the World. The most gratuitous book...