Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company is building for the Titan. Explains Technical Animation's President Stanley L. Schwartz, 41: "They had to show why a valve is the right valve before the guy actually got to operate it." On three separate screens, trainees see a cross section of the whole silo, a breakdown of each of its operating segments, and what they do in action...
...agreed that it would have been better for the prestige of British art if Landseer had died young. Yet that was a grace that was denied him. In 1839. when his love of 16 years, the recently widowed Duchess of Bedford, refused to marry him, he suffered a nervous breakdown, and when she died, he went quite balmy. He was at times homicidal (once he nearly killed the duchess' daughter by unceremoniously sitting on her chest as she lay abed with bronchitis). But he lived and painted on and on, dying at 71, to leave behind some...
...dance steps-the "round dance," conducted without posterial shimmying, and the "sickle dance." a semicircular pattern accompanied by a slightly wagging rear end-that locate the pollen. Moreover, he added, when an individually marked bee of a primitive species was introduced into the hive of an Apis mellifera, the breakdown of communication was almost complete...
...breakdown of 1960 census figures shows that only 52% of the country's 18.9 million Negroes still live in the eleven states of the old Confederacy-compared with 60% in 1950 and 81% in 1910. In the midst of a general population increase and an increase of the Negro segment of the population from 10% to 10.5%, many Southern states showed only slight increases in Negro population. Arkansas and Mississippi had decreases...
When Brazilian representatives finally came out from Recife, Galváo's mind was made up for him. The long-patient 607 passengers on the Santa Maria shouted that they had had enough of pointless wandering, short rations, and the sweltering discomfort caused by the breakdown of the ship's air conditioning. The docile 360-man crew - only five of whom had deserted to the rebels-grew mutinous at the thought of putting to sea again under Galváo. During the scuffling argument, someone was pushed through a glass door in the lounge. Three crew members jumped...