Word: defective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a prepared statement. "For generations," he said, "Americans have prided themselves on being a people with democratic ideals, a people who pay no attention to a man's race, creed or color. That very phrase has become a truism. But it is a truism with a fundamental defect; it has not been true . . . White people of whatever kind-even prostitutes, narcotics pushers, Communists or bank robbers-are welcome at establishments which will not admit certain of our federal judges, ambassadors and countless members of our armed forces." "You Tell Me." Then the Commerce Committee members began asking questions...
...taxi." Truth was, said Penkovsky, he was already relaying film to British intelligence, and now was in touch with the Americans as well. In London he delivered two bulky packages of state secrets to Wynne, tried on British and U.S. colonels' uniforms just in case he decided to defect, even discussed a possible escape from Russia by submarine if things got hot. He recalled more relaxed moments pub-crawling and nightclubbing. Box of Chocolates. After London, there was Paris. Wynne gaily showed the Russian around Fontainebleau, Versailles, the Lido and the Moulin Rouge-and willingly picked...
...pressure system had been leaky. To surface in an emergency, a submarine must have high air pressure to blow water from its ballast tanks and give buoyancy. In a flooding situation, anything less than full pressure would drastically slow down water ejection from the tanks-a fatal defect at Thresher's maximum depth. »Portsmouth workers installed 20% of the hydraulic-system valves backwards, inspected and approved their handiwork in that condition. When a control switch was pressed, a mechanical reaction occurred opposite to what was intended. For example, pushing a "down" button on the periscope caused...
...heart surgery with his pioneering patent-ductus operation (to shut off a vessel that is necessary during fetal life, but should close automatically soon after birth). He followed this with a more daring operation in 1946 to remove a narrowed section of the aorta-a crippling and potentially fatal defect with which some babies are born. Baltimore's Dr. Al fred Blalock opened the field for surgery directly on a malformed heart with the first blue-baby operation, which he devised in 1944 with Pediatrician Helen Taussig...
...Communist Viet Minh cadres from North Viet Nam; to the north of the Plaine des Jarres, Red Chinese troops are building roads linking China with Red-controlled Laos itself. Slowly the Communists have been pinching off supplies to Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le and bribing his officers to defect. Last week, with Kong Le's food and ammunition rations down to the two-day level, the Reds, in a blaze of gunfire, sliced off another chunk of neutralist territory at Xiengkhouang, just south of the plateau...