Word: defective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resounding proclamation got plenty of headlines, but it suffered from one basic defect: House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, the Democrats who can do most to translate the program into law, stayed far, far away from the D.A.C. session and said not a good word for its platform...
...dates of particular woodcuts. The Schuster Gallery, however, supplies none of this information. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the show is minimized by a careless arrangement that breaks up obvious sets, such as Adam and Eve, and ignores considerations of size and color. But what remains the most regrettable artistic defect of this exhibit is the burial of some works of artistic worth in a mass of readily salable trivia...
Since the moonlighting pilots are careful not to let their off-hour jobs interfere with their flying, airlines executives find no reason to complain. In fact, they tend to sympathize with the worry of many of the pilots-that some physical defect might be uncovered at one of their periodic examinations, bar them from flying. But if and when that happens, some of them will have some moonlight to brighten...
Still, the fact remains: Centre's win was not a shocking reversal of form. Although the Praying Colonels had dropped a 31-14 decision to the Crimson a year earlier, they had remedied their main defect--a porous line. In 1921, Centre had already defeated Clemson, 14 to 7, V.P.I., 14 to 0, St. Xavier, 28 to 6, and Transylvania, by the whopping margin...
Gross, who pioneered the way for modern heart surgery in 1938 by performing the first successful operation on an inborn cardiovascular defect, is the first surgeon to receive the $2,500 award in the seven years since its endowment...