Word: breakdown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Crime is on the increase in the U.S., the FBI reported last week. Its records for 1952 show 2,036,510 major crimes (four a minute), up 8.5% over 1951, and the highest yearly total so far. The bureau's breakdown...
...crowd of expectant reporters and photographers and a group of doctors awaited the arrival of a transatlantic plane from New York. The object of their vigil: Actor Sir Laurence Olivier, who was bringing his sick and troubled wife Vivien Leigh home from Hollywood, where she collapsed with a nervous breakdown a fortnight...
Never-Never Land. Rosalind's son, Lance, was born in 1943, and the following year she had a nervous breakdown. "I just got up one morning, and fell in a heap." The collapse put Ros in the hospital for three weeks and "slowed me up long enough to realize that after a wonderful career you either retire or go on to something you've never undertaken before. I was forced to meditate on the never-never land I was living in-it's part climate, part bank account, part self." Even faced by these unaccustomed self-doubts...
Mixed Feelings. The U.S. press and people reacted with mixed feelings. Ex-President Harry Truman remarked: "I am sorry to hear of [Stalin's] trouble ... I'm never happy over anybody's physical breakdown." Much more typical was a Chicago restaurateur who put a black wreath in his window, with a sign below reading: "Joe's gone. Vodka on the house." The New York Daily News, as usual, called a spade a meat-ax: "Jailbird son of a drunken cobbler . . . in essence, a backwoods plug-ugly and killer." Less crudely, but no less clear...
...bulk of the money, said Po, will go into peaceful people's pursuits: 59.24% for "national economic construction and social, cultural and educational projects" -and only 22.38% for war measures. But Po's breakdown was misleading. China's Reds build highways and railroads only where they have strategic value; most new factories are geared for heavy industry. Outside experts estimated that at least 60% of the budget will go into military expenditures...