Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of a split is mistaken," one of the White House sources said yesterday. "That breakdown may have worked for the four or five names mentioned in The Post, but nowhere else...
...interview, the King came on the line and predicted that he would be back in full control within 24 or 48 hours. The next day, however, the Indian government, which had some 25,000 troops stationed in Sikkim, took over because of what it called "the complete breakdown of law and order." The demonstrations thereupon stopped...
...living off the top. "Do as I say and not as I do," he admonished Trumpeter Red Rodney as he gave himself a fix. He went into a steady decline. Though his records made millions, his last years were a hell of scrounging for drugs. He had a nervous breakdown, recovered, attempted suicide. In the end his body proved less durable than his music. Afflicted by cirrhosis of the liver, stomach ulcers and pneumonia, he died in Manhattan in 1955, a tragic figure who in a few short years had forever changed the sound of jazz...
...class's regional composition and racial breakdown may also change. The Committee admitted six fewer blacks to the class, a decrease caused by the 20 per cent fall in blacks' applications this year, Jewett said...
...class-by-class breakdown of the CHUL poll results indicates that the younger classes support the change more than the upper-classes. Over 70 per cent of the seniors polled favor the change, but the support reaches 85 per cent in the Class...