Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that same Decennial Report, Blackmun and his classmates are subjected to a statistical breakdown. The median income of all the lawyers in his class is $3,000.00. One makes $11,000, another makes $100.00. Blackmun's income is not given, but it was probably at neither extreme. Three hundred and one of his classmates are Republicans, three hundred and thirty-six are Independents, eighty seven are Democrats, and ten are Socialists. They oppose President Roosevelt...
...community!" one man shouted. "They're not wanted in the black areas." "If we had good policemen, there'd be no need for dogs," said another. For their part, the two attending policemen took the lambasting fairly calmly, admitting that there was a "100 percent breakdown in communications between police and segments of the community"-meaning the blacks. Discrimination was charged in virtually every sector of civic life...
...into the plastic's carbon chain. When these "S" groups absorb ultraviolet light from direct sunlight, he says, their carbon "backbones" soon begin to be decomposed by microorganisms. But indoors-even in front of glass windows-they will not be affected. Guillet claims that the speed of the breakdown can be controlled by varying the number of "S" groups bonded into the plastic molecules. He also thinks that the process would raise the price of plastics by only a few cents per pound...
...from its obvious shock value, a motor??? in Sanders Theatre, says Loewinsohn, helps ??? down the decorum of the place." In Meat ???corum-breakdown is accomplished by poems ??? pissing. Anal-fixative poetry is of course, as ??? as Chaucer and as current as what you read on ??? bathroom wall this morning. Since the poet ???ardly obsessed with this trick. one example. ??? the appropriately titled "Paean" is adequate...
Last week a breakdown in the system made 8,200 Nebraska schoolchildren pawns in a bureaucratic clash. Thousands of youngsters elsewhere could also become involved...