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Word: breakdowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barring a hijacking of her airliner or a breakdown of her police escort, Carol Burnett, the Hasty Pudding Club's Woman of the Year, will arrive at the Pudding Clubhouse at 1:10 p.m. today. Y'all come and say hello...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burnett at Pudding | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

...money? For an estimated 25% of the population, the answer is yes. For another 50%, medical care can be described as passable, but it is certainly not as good as it could and should be. For 25%, care is either inexcusably bad, given in humiliating circumstances, or nonexistent. The breakdown is not simply by social stratum: the rich do not necessarily get the best care, nor the poor the worst. Says Dr. William H. Stewart, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service: "If even one American doesn't have access to a reasonable level of care, there's something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Plight of the U.S. Patient | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...known that before. He also knew that John had been through a severe three-month breakdown during his training at Esalen...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Into the Center of the Circle | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

...Without a nervous breakdown...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Into the Center of the Circle | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

...restless, however, and went back to his room with Paul. He looked at himself in the mirror: his eyes were open very wide; he did look stoned, bewildered, afraid. So he and Paul stayed in their room to witness the final event of that Monday--the boy's second breakdown...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: In the New Pastures of Heaven | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

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