Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister of his father's old companion, a graceful, sensitive girl whose temperament is somewhat like his own. During the War, when Oliver is certain that he is going to be killed, when his failure to solve the moral problems that oppress him has led to his physical breakdown, he proposes to Rose that she marry him so that he may leave his fortune to her. But Rose has fallen in love with Mario, although Mario is attentive to her only from habit. In comparison with Mario, who believes that "if you are a man you must be ready...
...most unfortunate setbacks had been suffered by outstanding journalists assigned to the North Front. Swizzling in Cairo recently and proclaiming, "I'm having a nervous breakdown!" famed Floyd Gibbons was all but unrecognizable when last photographed (see cut) except for his trademark, the patch across one blind eye. Others were arriving in Manhattan, London and Paris heart-shocked by the altitude; nausea-shocked by the fleas, flies and filth; sleepless from malaria and dysentery; jittering and at such low ebb that their journalistic employers sent them to secluded rest homes. On the subject of altitude able United Press European...
President Keeshin went only as far as Geneva, Ill. There he hopped out, waved a gleeful farewell, scooted back to Chicago. Few fears had he of breakdown or accident. Rather did he dread dirty political work from certain railroads and trucking companies in the Southwest which were gravely offended by his threat of expansion into their territory...
...banging imperiously for action, Comrade Ordzhonikidze stung Russians in their most sensitive spot-their pride-by telling them how the Capitalists who had sold tools to Bolsheviks were snickering up their sleeves, sure that clumsy Russians would never get the hang of mechanized technique. Already in Russia the breakdown of a machine was often the signal to shoot the operator "for sabotage." Commissar Ordzhonikidze demanded something more constructive...
...proceedings, caused some 25,000 Leningraders (according to correspondents' guesses) to be deported to Siberia, this example of zeal being known in Russia as "Stalin's Revenge." Commissar Grigoriy Prokofiev of the Ogpu Industrial Section, who attends to such matters as having Russian engineers, after a factory breakdown, "shot for sabotage." Commissar Terenty Deribas of the Ogpu Far East Section, perhaps its most romantic branch. In Mongolia and other nomadic border lands the natives are under an impression, perhaps mistaken, that a local chieftain whom the Ogpu considers superfluous often dies from the prick of a poisoned nail...