Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Complete breakdown calls for the familiar artificial kidney.* Partial failure calls for repeated "peritoneal irrigations" to wash out the body's natural metabolic poisons-and the process requires an abdominal incision for each irrigation...
With most steel users carrying fairly heavy inventories that they had built up as a hedge against a possible breakdown in the recent labor negotiations, the demand for steel since the contract settlement has softened. In April's first week, production fell from 82.5% of capacity to 81%. And for months the steel companies have found it hard to maintain their old prices on such items as wire products, tubes and stainless steel sheets. Muttered an Inland Steel executive: "This is no kind of market in which to raise prices. We have been selling most steel products below list...
According to Nikejic breakdown of colonialism is characteristic of the present...
...from a three-day "rest and a general checkup" in a private psychiatric hospital in Manhattan, Vagabond Crooner Eddie Fisher protested at a high-pitched press conference that the only romance between Wife Elizabeth Taylor and her Cleopatra costar, Richard Burton, was onscreen. Laughing off rumors of breakup and breakdown as "preposterous, ridiculous and absolutely false," Fisher predicted a similar public disclaimer from Liz, but after a 15-minute transatlantic call, returned to the conference with a stricken look. "You know," he warbled in the most pitiable understatement of the week, "you can ask a woman to do something...
...University student who once took psilocybin is now in MacLaine Hospital suffering from a mental breakdown, but hospital doctors have determined that the drug in no way contributed to his breakdown. Psilocybin produces hallucinations and visions lasting from three to five hours and, if used properly, can be very effective in personality research...