Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clara Bow, the cinema's "It" girl of the late '20s, was recovering from a nervous breakdown on the California ranch where she lives with her husband Rex Bell...
Dawson concluded that more than a kitchen cleanup was needed. "These conditions," said he, "were merely a visible symptom of an administrative breakdown." He made a few recommendations: 1) superintendents should be "able hospital administrators" not necessarily experienced in mental hospitals; 2) food should be prepared under a dietitian, not a chef whose only experience has been working in a State mental hospital; 3) injuries to patients should be promptly investigated; 4) new sources of attendants should be found-possibly among conscientious objectors; 5) patients who have escaped and remained at large for one year should not be automatically discharged...
Whenever we lecture to ourselves this way (editorial "we") we take ourselves too seriously and usually suffer a minor mental breakdown in two or three days. So tomorrow night, after having given ourselves this lecture, we're laking time off to attend the dance for Midshipmen at the liasty Pudding Club at 2000. We understand that it's just fine to bring along a wife or sweetheart, but we're going stag because we understand that Wellesley will be well represented...
...armed forced of the United Nations, among which those of Britain and America will have the last word, will not be able to occupy the whole Italian peninsula at one stroke. Therefore, a crisis will be unavoidable in large sections of the country between the moment of military breakdown and the time when the armed forces of the Atlantic Powers will have firmly established their control over the whole peninsula...
Back from a five-and-a-half-week tour of seven South American neighbor nations was Henry Agard Wallace, who had traveled by many conveyances, but most notably by handcar. After a railway-car breakdown in Ecuador the Vice President had transferred to the railgoing seesaw, shed his coat, hoisted his sleeves, doggedly pumped and sweated for three miles...