Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Decided to launch a propaganda campaign against the United Mine Workers' medical and hospitalization plans, marking the complete breakdown of efforts to reconcile A.M.A.-U.M.W. differences. Root of the trouble: A.M.A. insists that doctors must run medical-care plans and patients be free to choose their own physicians, while the U.M.W. maintains that it must have the right to pick its own medicos to treat members, for whom it shelled out $60 million last year...
...star is born. Before long, she has everything-$4,000 a week, a villa with retractable ceilings over the indoor pool, a nervous breakdown. She tries religion for a while, decides she likes whisky better. After that, she just stumbles along from drink to drink, sedative to sedative, picture to picture. "Life really is a fraud, isn't it?" she sighs one day through the barbiturate haze to the "companion" who is now in constant attendance. "I'm 31 years old, and I look back on it, and all I can think of to say is-so what...
...U.S.S.R. last week took the first big step toward disarmament since the breakdown of the London talks last fall. The U.S.S.R.'s Foreign Minister Gromyko handed to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson an aide-mémoire accepting the weeks-old U.S. invitation to convene a meeting of scientists and technicians to discuss ways of inspecting any stoppage of nuclear tests. Place of meeting: Geneva. Time of meeting: July 1; composition of meeting: the U.S., Britain and France on one side, the U.S.S.R., Poland and Czechoslovakia on the other...
What was happening in Lebanon last week, as in Algeria and Cyprus, was a reflection of the fact that fragile, painfully constructed accommodations between peoples of violently differing faiths and ethnic backgrounds had come to the verge of breakdown. In its own selfish interests...
...cartoons in the Nashville Banner derided "Mixiecrats" and "Bleeding Hearts," pictured the North's "objective liberal press" as burying delinquency stories on the obituary pages. When newsmen such as the Atlanta Journal's Managing Editor William Ray tried conscientiously to dig deeper by demanding a racial breakdown of the 644 students expelled from New York schools as troublemakers, they ran afoul of school regulations that forbid such identification...