Word: breakdown
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Dunce's Revenge. Nobody fits Goertzel's findings better than Winston Church ill, who despised his tutor-governess, was sent off at seven to St. James's School, where at nine he had a physical breakdown from trying to buck the system. Churchill was Harrow's bottom scholar (and spent years mastering English while others went on to Greek and Latin). He twice failed Sandhurst's entrance exams, barely passed on his third...
...Sinclair-Gieben says his use of hypnosis to cure severe asthma does not necessarily show the ailment to be psychological in origin. Many asthma victims act sicker than they really are, but the Scottish patient was a "welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair-Gieben, it shows that hypnosis can exert a physical as well as psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical...
...breakdown of injuries, with fatalities in parentheses: Softball, 703; football, 520-basketball, 504; water sports, 359 (76); winter sports, 154; baseball, 147; volleyball, 137-skeet shooting, 76 (1); hunting, 70 (2); hiking, 16-others, 536. The Air Force reported that 32,013 man-days were lost, at a cost...
...dots. The computer is so intelligent that it constantly checks its own circuits, makes some repairs itself. When it can't make the correction, the brain wisely teletypes for help from human custodians, reporting the location of the trouble spot, the month, day, hour and minute of the breakdown.' Morris (pop. 7,985), which only switched to dial phones a year ago, was chosen for the pilot project because of its size, its ratio of industrial business, rural and urban residents. Although less than 10% of the town's 4,500 telephone users are current participants...
...some manufacturers have tried to save by taking a chance on materials that often turn out to be inferior. On the other hand, the very productivity and ingenuity of U.S. industry has created quality problems: ten years ago, when a housewife had only two or three major appliances, the breakdown of one was not so noticeable. Today she may have three or four times as many, and if three break down within a week, she may well feel nothing works-and holler...