Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning, few men who wrote the news, and fewer still who broadcast it, could resist the purple technique of dire warnings, manic-depressive cycles, sweeping prognostications. Many a news commentator offered his audience little more than a 15-minute nervous breakdown. Not so Elmer Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground...
...plain that unless the Manpower Commission, the Army, the Navy and Congress could reach a meeting of minds on a clear-cut program, the U.S. faced a breakdown in war production and essential civilian economy...
...breakdown of the international's expenses listed the number of employes with separate totals for each category (e.g., four officers, $30,250; four publicity workers, $8,854; seven researchers, $11,473). Biggest single expense item, besides the $179,200 "tax" paid to C.I.O., was $70,999 for Steel Labor (U.S.A.'s monthly). Most revealing insight into what it costs to run a bang-up union: $19,478.15 for "buttons, emblems and badges." > A separate table showed the expenses of each of U.S.A.'s 39 districts and four super-district offices. They were broken down into 16 categories...
...with the expectancy that American foreign policy during the thirties can be halocd or blessed. Nothing could be farther from the truth, the truth made so painfully clear by page after page of very factual historical exposition. In precise chronological order, the department's analysts have recorded the breakdown of international morality during that distressed decade, and have attempted to weave some sort of cohesive web from the fragments of democratic resistance to this collapse...
...suffer from intestinal disturbances and disordered heart rate. A man with poor mental balance may develop hysterical blindness, paralysis, stiff joints, which will genuinely disqualify him as a fighter (hysteria rarely occurs in newly wounded men-presumably because real wounds eliminate them from battle). Another common type of war breakdown is the hallucinatory reliving of terrifying scenes. A psychopath may quit fighting, give way to panic, or commit suicide. Still other men will brood over every step of a battle, with remorse for their own inadequacy, or for having participated in killing...