Word: defection
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...member Knesset (Parliament). The charismatic Dayan, who is somewhat more popular with the electorate at large than he is with other leaders of the Labor Party, had threatened, in effect, to sulk in his tent through the election if the plan was not adopted. If Dayan were to defect from Labor or even withdraw from the campaign in silence, the party would stand to lose eight to ten seats and might even be toppled from power...
...thus modernizing the 19th century M'Naghten rule that a criminal defendant could plead insanity only if he did not know right from wrong. In the Durham ruling, the court declared that a man is legally insane if his unlawful act is the "product of mental disease or defect...
Perhaps because Haldeman has been characterized as a former adman, he avoided any run-it-up-the-flagpole chatter. Still, he introduced some collector's items: "Zero-defect system," for perfection; "containment" for the withholding of information. Throughout the hearings, where precision would help, a file of worn metaphors and similes appears. Usually the phrases smack of the military or sports-two arenas notable for their threadbare lexicons. Porter thought of himself as "a team player," Dean as a soldier who had "earned my stripes." Ehrlichman considered himself proficient at "downfield blocking." J. Edgar Hoover was "a loyal trooper...
Mary Alice Relf, now twelve, is mentally retarded, has a speech defect, and was born without a right hand. She has a sister named Minnie, 14, and as they grew old enough to attract boys, welfare workers steered them to a federally financed family planning center in Montgomery, Ala., where they received injections every three months of a drug called Depo-Provera, which was being tested as a contraceptive...
...Medicine has criticized the plan for leaving the impression that "all shots can be called from a central headquarters." It has also taken issue with the assumption that most of the knowledge needed to conquer cancer is already in hand. Says the committee: "It seems to us a defect of the N.C.P. that the enormity of our ignorance receives less emphasis than it merits...