Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last war come after all controls on the wartime economy had been done away with, E. Merrick Dodd '10, professor of Law, and Merle Eainsod, associate professor of Government, last night stressed the fact that a retention of wartime controls is needed if we are to avoid a disastrous breakdown of our economy...
...role's extremes of neurotic desperation are beyond healthy Miss Bergman, and, wisely, she never attempts the babbling hysteria or shrieking rages that made Judith Evelyn's performance the sensation of its first season on Broadway. But she brings fine and passionate insight to her gentler breakdown-which she enriches tremendously by.creating deep perspectives into the sort of woman this wife was before she was trapped...
...defeat, also resented the Führer's withdrawal. They stamped down sparks of unrest. Old rumors cropped up about violent disagreement within the ruling clique, and experienced correspondents thought that now the rumors were probably true. But Naziwise Swedes saw no chance of such disagreement leading to breakdown until "the invasion is consolidated and Allied advance guards are well on the way to Germany's frontiers...
...left in the background. It appears most clearly in the answers to a Gallup question assuming that the war in Europe will be nearly over on Election Day, but mentioning neither the Pacific war nor the peace terms. Here Roosevelt wins by 51%-to-49%. But a breakdown by regions shows him leading Dewey only in the Solid South. In terms of an actual election this would mean a Dewey victory, since a Democrat with a useless surplus of Southern votes must get about 52% of the national popular vote in order to win. The figures...
Liza Elliott (Ginger Rogers), the frigid, tailored editor of a fashion magazine, works so hard at her job, and at her avoidance of life, that she is near breakdown. In her waking hours Editor Elliott 1) keeps snapping at the office pest (Ray Milland) who insists on calling her Boss-Lady, 2) cannot bring herself to marry her lover (Warner Baxter) when divorce at last sets him free, 3) is attracted, to her own bewilderment, by a massively masculine cinemactor (Jon Hall). Asleep, she has spectacular dreams, complete with music. She consults a psychoanalyst (Barry Sullivan). In just four interviews...