Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closest races for the House was finally decided, subject to demands for a recount. In Colorado, Democrat Wayne N. Aspinwall was re-elected over Republican State Senator Howard Shults, 39,676 votes to 39,647-a majority of exactly 29. Current breakdown of the new House: Republicans, 221; Democrats, 212; Independent, 1; one seat vacant (since the death, two days after Election Day, of Illinois' Democrat Adolph J. Sabath-TIME...
...prove that, as a result of confusion rampant in the Kremlin during the invasion's initial stages, authority collapsed, taking with it all semblance of organization, resistance, and loyalty. Nothing more than enumeration of the many defections during that period, moreover, is necessary to convince readers that the breakdown in authority suspended Inertness, set the Russians mulling over past injustices as they never had before, and thus created the only conditions in which organized resistance might thrive...
...piece of propaganda, acres of bad poetry." She was sure that no matter what else she might do, "lovers of pure poetry . . . will . . . never forgive me for writing this book." She wrote a lot more "duration" poetry, and the last year of the war she paid with a breakdown...
...other more specific ways, says Lilje, the reformers helped construct a new world order. From Luther on, they sponsored popular education and the use of vernacular languages. Luther himself evolved a new theory of charity that prevented "a breakdown of the social order in the 16th century," when the medieval pattern of almsgiving for the good of the donor's soul fell into neglect. Luther told his followers that "the aim of charity is the independence of the individual; the helpless must be trained to help themselves...
Summarizing, Bishop Lilje compares the breakdown of the "optimistic world view" of the 19th century with the fall of the medieval world order in Luther's time. He writes: "His plight, like ours, is a profound sense of the uncertainty of human existence. We are not secure in this world, but in constant peril ... All human roads seek to avoid these deep valleys. It was Luther's experience that God purposely leads us through them in order to make us receptive to His Word...