Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turnpike Authority plans also call for breakdown trucking terminal at the Cambridge St. exit in the old Brighton railroad yards. Massachusetts law prohibits diesel cabs from having any more than one trailer except on the Turnpike...
...obviously designed to choke off the base's local work force-and also halt the embarrassing trickle of post exchange food that Cuban workers have been able to carry home with them. People living in Oriente province, which surrounds the base, have been especially hard hit by the breakdown of Cuba's distribution system. Beef and chickens, frozen when they leave Havana 600 miles away, arrive in Oriente in an advanced state of decay; so do dairy products. Said one Cuban on the base: "Our meat sometimes has worms, and when it doesn't it smells...
...cool and objective approach derives from Mark Hellinger's 1948 movie. The Naked City (Hellinger's widow has collected more than $80,000 in royalties so far). Whether it is telling the story of a painter who murders his wife or a cop having a nervous breakdown, its scripts are full of insight and nicely caught dialogue. The plots are built, not boiled. And it has won three Emmys in such fields as editing and photography...
...talks resume next October. But he argued that Britain's hopes for a tentative agreement this summer were snagged by France's last-minute, 3 a.m. insertion of an extraneous matter of agricultural prices in the closing Brussels session. Paris quickly contested the British version of the breakdown of the talks, said that discussions had actually foundered when Heath himself decided to "reserve his position" on the matter of further British concessions on safeguards for Commonwealth farm exports...
Research Institute have demonstrated that acetonitrile-a breakdown product of burned tobacco-can be detected in the urine of anyone who smokes three or more cigarettes a day. The women participating in the experiment will have to give daily urine specimens for analysis to make sure they are not cheating...