Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motel in Birmingham was bombed hours after I checked out of it. I was locked up with reporters and photographers in the Danville, Va., city hall when police flushed demonstrators down off the steps. But at no time did I ever feel that there was an absolute breakdown of community leadership such as I saw in Harlem, where mobs of people ran pell-mell in an open battle with the police...
...victims of kidney disease who make headlines are those whose kidney breakdown is so bad that they need the most dramatic and resourceful treatment-the use of an artificial kidney, or, most daring of all, a kidney transplant. But in all the world probably no more than 300 renal-disease patients have had transplants. In the entire U.S., patients being kept alive with an artificial kidney number hardly more than...
Seamless Web. Author McLuhan is a University of Toronto professor and literary critic, who writes books (first was The Gutenberg Galaxy) to prove that books are responsible for most of the ills of modern man. Nationalism, war, industrialization, population explosion, the breakdown of human relations in urbanized chaos-McLuhan blames them all on Gutenberg's invention of movable type, and the resulting growth of both the audience and the technology for communication-by-print...
...came out with his "profile" of the ideal G.O.P. nominee; the hurt was hardly lessened when Ike later denied that he had meant it to be used against Barry. A Good Housekeeping writer said he had been told by Goldwater's wife Peggy that Barry had suffered nervous breakdowns, due to business pressures, twice in the late 1930s. Columnist Drew Pearson picked up the item and with his characteristic kind of punch, raised the question of whether Goldwater was mentally stable enough to be President. Goldwater's longtime physician denied that Barry had ever suffered any such breakdown...
...that the system can make antibody to neutralize the invader. "Normally," says Dr. Dameshek, "the body has safeguards so it can recognize 'self as opposed to 'not-self,' and it will not damage 'self materials. Occasionally these safeguards break down." Dr. Dameshek detected such a breakdown in 1937 when he was treating three patients for severe hemolytic ("blood-destroying") anemia. They needed transfusions, but in the blood of each patient the doctor found a factor that made cross-matching difficult. He discovered that both the donors' blood cells and the patients' own were being...