Word: defection
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...first things James Bryant Conant, does in his latest book, Shaping Educational Policy, is to admit to a grave moral defect in the first book he wrote about education, The American High School Today...
Fadden blames most of the football deaths that occur annually on faulty medical supervision. Rather than an inherent defect of the sport, fatalities are the fault of teams who neglect to have their players examined for physical defects, for weaknesses that could prove deadly in a sweltering late August workout or a jarring tackle...
Nonsense, ruled the state Supreme Court and a U.S. District Court. But the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found a "fatal defect" in the organization of the grand jury because "the basis of selection was race." Well attuned to local mores, the appellate court stressed the "somewhat paradoxical" effect of such selection-the wide spread Southern phenomenon that fearful or complaisant Negro jurors have a tendency to be especially harsh on Negro defendants...
...Commission finding?There is no evidence that Oswald was in touch with Soviet agents before his visit to Russia. Had Oswald been recruited as a Russian agent while he was still in the Marines, it is most improbable that he would have been encouraged to defect. He would have been of greater value to Russian intelligence as a Marine radar operator than as a defector...
...Defective Plumbing. Harrowed by fear that he will not get into college, Joseph is plucked from Brooklyn's comforting concrete and deposited in a summer camp to work as a waiter. Among other curiosa, the camp boasts a sullen horse that looks like Robert Ryan, and children who have "the faces of middle-aged manufacturers." He makes sad love to a girl camper who when her breasts are caressed emits a horrendous squawk like a "sudden plumbing defect in a far-off house at midnight." When his last college application is turned down, Joseph consoles himself by rifling...