Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME erred; Reader Parks' breakdown is correct...
Early this week the blow fell. The British delegation announced that the Indians could not come to any agreement. Despite concessions from both sides, "unbridgeable" differences remained. The breakdown in negotiations did not mean that India would not be freed. All along, the realistic Britishers had assumed that they might have to impose a government in spite of Indian differences...
Last week Austria was still a shattered monument to the breakdown of Big Three cooperation. In Paris, Jimmy Byrnes, as a key point in the new U.S. positive policy, tried to begin redemption of the pledge. Curtly, Molotov told Byraes that Austria was not on the agenda and refused even to discuss putting it there...
...while until Captain Harold B. Ellis discovered which sailor was carrying the magnet around in his pocket and throwing the compass off. Just outside of Tripoli they steamed through a floating minefield under the impression that it was a gathering of turtles. Captain Ellis went ashore with a nervous breakdown, refused to come back...
After years of this, Manager Webster suffered a nervous breakdown and retired to the quiet countryside, where he spent his few remaining years carving ship models and looking at the stars through a telescope. Pope Leo XIII created him a Knight of the Order of Pius for publishing his biography. In later years, Uncle Sam once said acidly: "If the Pope made Webster a knight, he ought to have made him an archangel...