Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanky, who made no secret of what he thought about Southworth's managing. Stanky's roommate, Alvin Dark, said "Me, too." By August, Southworth was like a man in a haunted house, shying at every whisper, He was sent home on the verge of a breakdown. The crowning insult came when his players voted him only half a share of their series money (for finishing fourth...
...Grotewohl was taken to the Soviet Military Hospital in Eastern Berlin's Ober-Schoneweide suburb. Six Soviet soldiers escorted him to the second floor suite usually reserved for Russian generals. The Communist Radio Berlin said Grotewohl had the grippe. Privately, top Communist leaders said he had a nervous breakdown. According to Berlin gossip, Grotewohl had long been afraid that the Russians were out to liquidate him as politically unreliable, for weeks had kept his lights burning all night in his Berlin residence. One morning he reportedly found Comrade Ulbricht riffling through his mail in his office and promptly went...
...doctors said Grotewohl would have to stay in the hospital at least four weeks. That should certainly be enough to cure a case of grippe, but it was probably not enough to cure a nervous breakdown or a severe case of political jitters. Whatever else was the matter with Grotewohl, he had also developed an incompatibility with the Russians; it might prove incurable...
...four-week breakdown of the new fine system revealed that of 70,000 books borrowed since school has opened, only one per cent have come in after the nine a.m. deadline. At 75 cents for each book this amounts to $525, McNiff said, and this has brought a lot of student cooperation...
...breakdown of the pledges by Houses reveals several contrasts caused by the varying quality of solicitation work. Winthrop House led the field with 112 pledges, followed by Lowell with 88. Kirkland, Dunster, Adams, and Leverett had average showings of 50 to 60 pints. Eliot pledged 30, as much as Winthrop's B entry, which houses drive chairman William Polk. The Yard total was lower than expected--118. The Radcliffe drive netted 40 girls willing to give blood...