Word: crackup
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...Army now discharges hundreds of mental cases a week. When a man has a mental crackup in battle, his local draft board may be to blame-chances are two to one that he showed signs of mental disease before he was inducted. Captain David J. Flicker of the Army Medical Corps estimates in War Medicine that draft boards oblivious to mental disease and overworked Army psychiatrists catch only 25% of future Army misfits...
...core. And as urbanization increases, the group control of a homogeneous society-symbolized by the U.S. back fence-disappears. Standards of group and personal behavior break down together when the anonymous city dweller has the "liberty" to drift into unconventionality and excess which are frequently the forerunners of mental crackup...
...they got the young man to Sydenham Hospital the thunder crashed and the rain came down. They called Acting Chief Surgeon Dr. Edward Finestone in from Far Rockaway, 24 miles out on Long Island. Dr. Finestone, driving in fast through the storm, had a bad skid and a slight crackup, but he got to the hospital...
...last December. Better seller is a cheaper, non-automatic direction finder for use in private planes. In 1939, Lear Avia lost $15,000 on a $222,000 volume. Said Lear then: "I'd give my life for $55,000." Just out of a Miami hospital (result of a crackup in his new Cessna), he values his life more now. Last week he estimated Lear Avia's 1940 earnings: in excess of $100,000 on sales of $968,000. And sales are no longer a problem. His $5,000,000 backlog includes South American, Norwegian and Canadian orders...
...rmer, the notorious Nazi anti-Semitic organ, "England for the English-out with the Jews! Heil Hitler!" By last summer the Führer was visibly tired of "the English miss" and she was mooning at him from a distance at public functions-obviously ripe for a feminine emotional crackup...