Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adapts his convictions to the latest Gallup surveys, and Henry Fonda, the idealistic egghead. Fonda lacks the cheek, magnetism, and driving ambition to make his bid for high office seem more than perfunctory. Thus when Robertson threatens to release a medical report showing that Fonda once had a mental breakdown and is a habitual philanderer, it is obvious that Fonda will be too decent to retaliate by bringing up Robertson's own involvement in an Army homosexual scandal. Director Franklin Schaffner further dissipates the film's climactic confrontation scene with Robertson's old Army buddy, letting...
Then there was Dr. Gérard Savoy, who was called in to treat Winnie in Lausanne in 1958, when she had a nervous breakdown. Though Dr. Savoy conveniently forgot to mention that his license had just been suspended for taking kickbacks from a nurse, he went on Winnie's payroll at $1,500 a month...
...breakdown on Bobby's loans: Beckley National Bank, Beckley, W. Va., $10,000; Suburban Trust Co., Hyattsville, Md., $10,100; First National Bank of South Carolina, Denmark, S.C., $13,238; McLachlen Banking Corp., Washington, $16,000; State Bank & Trust Co., Columbia, S.C., $25,000; National Bank of Washington, $28,000; Fidelity Investment Co., Washington, $40,600; the Small Business Administration, $54,400; District of Columbia National Bank, Washington, $135,000; American Security & Trust Co., Washington, $223,000; American National Bank, Silver Spring, Md., $262,000; First National Bank in Dallas, $471,000; Fidelity National Bank & Trust Co., Oklahoma City...
Following is a breakdown by House of the number of upperclassmen planning to stay in their present rooms and the number moving to new suites...
...back in a hospital-this time with a broken hip, the result of a bathroom fall. It proved a lucky break. Although immobile once more, he was suffering at last from a socially approved ailment: a broken hip, he points out, is perfectly respectable, whereas a stroke or a breakdown is "loaded with connotations...