Word: defective
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...this seething volume. According to the author, the Mother Goddam of movies for four decades was something else offscreen. The paranoid figure saw herself as a feminine version of Gulliver. "Never relax," she warned B.D., "or the Lilliputians will climb up your legs and devour your soul." No defect goes uncharted, from the star's alcoholism to violent maledictions from her fourth husband, Actor Gary Merrill: "The only people who can be around you for long without wanting to kill you are faggots...
...easily and were unbearably hot in warm climates, and the Pentagon canceled a new combat boot that tended to fall apart. Said one Army expert: "We don't even like to talk about that one." Like the boots, the faulty helmets will probably be replaced. But there is a defect in the process of trying to correct the defect: the military is still trying to trace the units that are wearing the helmets. TENNESSEE Jailhouse...
...difficult to believe that the Soviets would risk using a KGB official as important as Yurchenko in a sting operation against the CIA. There is always the chance that the agent might defect for good or be forced to reveal valuable information. "If you were chief of the KGB, would you pick an agent who knew all your agents and send him on a mission like this?" asks former CIA Director Richard Helms...
...something you think you saw or, worse, reassured that things are fine when in fact there's something wrong," says Riley. Many an obstetrician has seen patients who have spent sleepless nights worrying after being told--incorrectly--by a keepsake-ultrasound technician that their baby may have a major defect...
...addition, she said, Harvard is unlike most universities in only granting tenure to full professors, potentially encouraging promising junior faculty to defect to other universities that do have tenured associate professors...