Word: breakdown
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...they found U.S. women largely emancipated and close to winning the vote. There were other causes to which Kinsey pays little or no heed. One was Prohibition, which helped destroy respect for law and. indirectly, for all authority (and which also taught women to drink). Another was the widespread breakdown of formal religion. Perhaps at the root of all the causes was the inevitable reaction against the prim Victorian era, which itself was not nearly so safe & sound as it appeared. For beneath its placid surface, a social and intellectual revolution had long been rumbling, which enshrined science and progress...
Shortly after the breakdown of the Anglo-Egyptian talks, Sir Winston Churchill and his imperialist organs attempted to put the blame on Egypt. Churchill's misleading propaganda claimed that Egypt by so doing was threatening the security of the whole of the Middle East and endangering the interests of the free world. In no way was this propaganda true, as Egypt is anxious to settle the problem of the Suez Canal in order to be able to concentrate all efforts on carrying out her reform projects...
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After the first visit of Senator Jenner's Internal Security Subcommittee to Boston late in March, some 56 Massachusetts educators issued a statement claiming that congressional investigating committees "are contributing to a subtle breakdown in our democratic processes...
...Furthermore, as the Commerce Department itself pointed out, sales of all lines have risen so much that the ratio of inventory to sales is actually lower than a year ago. April's retail sales of $14.3 billion were up a bouncing 7% above a year ago. And a breakdown of inventories (see chart) shows that both retail and wholesale inventories are just about where they were last year. Most of the overall rise has taken place in manufacturing because of the necessity of storing materials for big defense orders. In a large measure, the inventory rise is a barometer...