Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calm, black-clad sister described how a breakdown in health had forced her to give up the austerely cloistered life of the Carmelite Order. She had been granted a special authorization which gave her, because of ill health, the right to go out into the world without losing her religious status. Thus released from the strenuous Carmelite vows, Sister Madeleine entered the order of the Dominicans of Béthanie, in which she kept good standing while looking after the three Roquette-Buisson children. Said she: "The baron is fond of horses . . . He lives the life of a gentleman farmer...
...Haven, meanwhile, the independent Federation of Yale University Employees voted to strike, following a breakdown in negotiations yesterday...
...breakdown of NATO...
Fifty-six professors, including seven from Harvard and Radcliffe, have signed a statement condemning Congressional investigating committees as "contributing to a subtle breakdown in our democratic processes...
While Clark was still studying the Communist note, the Chinese made a second and far more important proposal. In a Peking radio broadcast, Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, who had recently returned from Moscow, abandoned Chinese insistence upon forced repatriation of all P.W.s, the issue which caused the breakdown of the Panmunjom talks. Admitting that there are some Chinese who don't want to go home-"captured personnel of our side who, under the intimidation and oppression of the opposite side, are filled with apprehension"-Chou suggested that prisoners who reject repatriation be handed over to a neutral state. Four...