Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the breakdown of the father-dominated family and the emancipation of women, Dr. Halliday finds, there has been a significant sexual shift in psychosomatic diseases. In the 19th Century more women than men got ulcers and exophthalmic goiter; since 1900 it has been the other way around, increasingly so. During the late 19th Century, twice as many men as women got diabetes; by the 1930s there were two or three women with diabetes to every male sufferer. Dr. Halliday, who is married and the father of two children, comments: "The personality type of male was apparently becoming in some...
...Bloomington, Ind. Exhausted after seven years' work on the studied, strained, lengthy (1,066 pages) first novel that had finally brought him financial (MGM's $125,000 prize), critical and popular success, Lockridge seemed, at the time of his suicide, to be successfully weathering a nervous breakdown...
...team's 1 to 0 shutout of Yale at the Arena Saturday night. The incredible goal-tending of Jack Lavalle and Eli Jimmy Burns, combined with the gruelling attacks of both teams and the razor-thin margin of victory, kept 3,170 fans on the verge of a nervous breakdown right down to the final whistle...
...means U.S. dollars in the Latin American pocket. Assuming that Congress approves the ERP program of buying in Latin America, the latinos will be invited to ship something like $1½ billion of foodstuffs and raw materials to Europe by July 1, 1949. Bill Pawley could point to this breakdown...
With the third book, The Realist, laid in 1918, the moral breakdown is complete. Huguenau, the central character, is a deserter. Clever, self-confident, cocky, a smooth salesman, he finds himself in a town where the aging Major von Pasenow (the hero of The Romantic) is the town commandant and where Esch, spiritualized and suffering, and with vague Messianic visions, is the editor of a failing radical paper. Huguenau becomes friendly with Esch in order to denounce him to the commandant, organizes a company to buy the paper, and is unmasked as a deserter just as the revolution begins...