Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lois Dickson '54, Council president, last night said, "The present reserving system will continue indefinitely unless there is another serious breakdown. If this occurs, the privilege will have to be revoked...
...crowded like cattle, 40 or 50 to a room. They got only potato soup, carrots and 200 grams of bread for their daily meal. Their letters, to their families and Communist friends in Italy, to Hungarian Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi, were not delivered. One day Faticati had a nervous breakdown; he screamed and cried for his four children. When the guards came, Merlino went to defend his comrade...
...almost distressing to find in a first novel. The mellowness with which Mr. Flood tells his story, with absence of any intensity in episode or character, does not transmit the feeling inherent in the novel's conception. He describes even the most chilling events of his story--Henry's breakdown, the ruin of his first marriage, the dry-rot of his second--with a placidity which seems to confide to the reader that all will work out happily. As a result, the affirmation of man's capacity for love and understanding which the whole novel represents--in its story, characters...
...publicity, including $30,000 for full-page ads in the New York Times ("Guatemala-Panorama of Progress"). In the capital's Aurora park he set thousands of masons and carpenters working to finish the fair for last week's grand opening. But heavy rains and the breakdown of the country's only cement plant were too much for even the protean Toriello. On the day the show was to open with a bigtime bullfight, featuring bulls and toreros imported from Spain and Mexico, the new bull ring was not ready; there was no outer wall around...
...breakdown of the figures places 49 veterans in the College, 187 in the Business School, 152 in the Law School, 53 in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and 43 in other departments. There are, in addition to these, approximately 500 veterans studying under the World War II G.I. Bill (Public...