Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...details on what kind of brushes artists used in the 17th century. As the domineering father in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, he became intolerably high & mighty around his own home. When he acted the murderer in Payment Deferred, he got so morose he nearly had a nervous breakdown. Says Korda of these soul struggles: "What he needs is not a director but a midwife...
...Pastor Bart could have guessed. And Novelist O'Hara fills his bitter cup to overflowing. Bart came to learn that his wife had not only been unfaithful to him with brother Ramsey, but with a long list of casual characters as well. Bart Wyngate had a nervous breakdown...
...Hatlike Hothouse. With "great sobs tearing me to pieces," Beverley was soon carted off to a mental home, suffering from a nervous breakdown. He feared he was going mad-"But if I am . . ." he assured a friend, "I might as well do it with a certain amount of chic." Instead of going mad. he took the more dangerous course of hunting up a new cause, which he found in the "underdog" condition of the British proletariat. "In the old pacifist days I wanted to blow up the War Office . . . Under the ... Oxford Group I wanted to drag people to church...
...breakdown of the second-year men's grades was announced last week. The Class of '52 bettered their June grades and surpassed the class of 1951. All five categories were used in its case...
After Labor's commitment in May, Churchill said, Labor had made another in September. It had agreed with the U.S. that in the event of a breakdown of Korean truce talks and a resumption of large-scale fighting, "certain action should be taken." This action, it was agreed, would be automatic, and would not even require prior Anglo-American consultation...