Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's great rice exporters - Burma, Siam, Indo-China - have never recovered from their wartime agricultural breakdown. This crop-year they will be able to export less than one-third the normal prewar figure. No matter how well it is distributed, this food balance sheet adds up to acute shortage. Two countries, Argentina and the U.S., both more prosperous than they were before the war, might alleviate the crisis, Argentina by charging less, the U.S. by eating less...
Last week, from a rural hospital bed to which she had retired with a nervous breakdown, daughter Iris corroborated her mother's charge. She remembered the incidents well because she herself, at the age of 13, had helped to deliver one of the babies on the family's windswept farm in Corangie. Next day she had asked her mother whether she should bathe the child. "You needn't bother," Audley Bennet told her daughter wearily. "Dad drowned...
...worn off, that the college is a group community. He sees his companions, faces that have already become familiar to him, eating together in the Union, going to the movie in rapidly solidifying groups. In every place that the rude alphabetical democracy of the classroom does not apply this breakdown evolves. Later in the year it is a matter of applying for Houses, and the yard roommate pattern is altered...
...borderline cases" cropped up. Samuel Johnson had hallucinations and delusions (e.g., he believed that eating an apple would make him drunk). When he felt his "madness" coming on, Johnson had his housekeeper lock him in his room and sometimes beat him. Southey, a highly nervous type, had a breakdown...
Sizable groups of men from ten different classes were in College at the same time this fall to demonstrate graphically the breakdown of class organization which inevitably accompanied the war. It is the lack of integration born of the war together with the deeper factors of cross-cutting inherent in the House system and steady increase in class size which the Report explicitly set out to remedy. Pointing out that the "cornerstone of the Harvard alumni organization is the class," the Report offers a blueprint intended "to bring order out of chaos" on a matter of long-range import...