Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After three years, says Williams, "I guess I willed myself into a nervous breakdown." Recuperating with his grandparents in Memphis that summer, he wrote his first play: Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay!, about two sailors who pick up a couple of girls. He had never seen a sailor. In the next few years, returning to St. Louis, he churned out scripts about miners (unseen), munitions makers (unseen), prison convicts roasted alive (unseen) and a flophouse (visited). A quasi-bohemian theater group called the Mummers staged them...
...even if, as is more likely, the police failure reflects only a breakdown in the system of administration of policy, the situation is still grave. For such an administrative failure is not corrected over night; and de Gaulle may find that the basic machinery necessary for the preservation of his Grand Design has been too long neglected to work at this crucial time...
...result of this deal is the freedom of the two "spies." Colonel Abel, skilled in his field, will probably re-enter the area of espionage and continue his successful career. Gary Powers, unskilled in spying and following instructions, will probably return home to have a nervous breakdown...
...summiteering by a brash 36-year-old whose big brother appointed him Attorney General, not Secretary of State. The next time one of the traveling Kennedys goes on a diplomatic lark, the Administration ought to have Dean Rusk carry his (or her) suitcases in order to dramatize the complete breakdown in orderly and prudent division of responsibility. Top-level foreign relations in this hydrogen-charged world are far too delicate to trust to kid brothers tired of Washington...
...mounting public pressures were hampering technicians in readying Glenn's Atlas-D booster and space capsule for safe flight. After that, in nerve-racking order, came delays caused by a faulty fuel valve in the booster, a malfunction in the cooling system of Glenn's spacesuit, a breakdown in the capsule's oxygen supply unit...