Word: defectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...habitual rapists "have developed an anger and contempt for women," says Nicholas Groth, chief psychologist of the Massachusetts Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Dan gerous Persons. But he sees the core defect as "a sense of emptiness-of being nothing, and therefore having no regard for himself or for others. When you don't have anything else-job success, friend ship, family ties-your last resort for creating your own identity is sexual aggression...
Doctors have yet to determine the genetic defect responsible for Joseph illness. But they have been able to trace its transmission. The disease can be passed on only by those who are actually afflicted; each of their offspring has a fifty-fifty chance of inheriting the ailment. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to detect before it begins-sometimes in the victims' teens, more usually in the mid-20s. By then, they have often started having children of their own and have passed the family disease along to them...
...machines are a disgrace," Nerken said. "It is amazing that the store was able not to notice such a serious defect in the machines before purchasing them," he added...
...LAST, A REAL FIRST LADY! exclaimed one telegram to the White House, where mail was running about evenly for and against Mrs. Ford's opinions. Added Washington Post Television Columnist Sander Vanocur: "Betty Ford should be banned from television. She is too honest. Mrs. Ford wears her defect like diamonds. And they dazzle...
...police at his desk in the athletic-training department of the Polish Ministry of National Defense. Since his arrest, more than 100 persons are believed to have been interrogated in connection with the case. He is variously rumored to have been involved with a smuggling ring, planned to defect to the West, or to have spied for the French secret service, the CIA or the KGB. Similar tales have reached Polish-born academicians and authors in the U.S. None could be confirmed...