Word: defectiveness
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...Senate-House conference with the stipulation that the U.S. cut off aid to Poland as long as that country continues to trade with North Viet Nam. By some adroit parliamentary legerdemain, House leaders delayed a final tally until they could persuade a crucial handful of members to defect to their side...
Dispassionately, he records that social and intellectual snobbery was her worst defect, and he notes with a stranger's eye "a streak of incongruous archness in her humor which is almost ladylike and very disconcerting." Woolf mentions friendships, but the reader feels no warmth. He writes most affectionately of a marmoset named Mitz (the gift of a Rothschild), which rode on his shoulder on a tour of Hitler's Germany. The monkey stole the show and distracted the Brownshirts from Woolf's culpable Jewishness...
Credibility Issue. Ex-Priest Davis, by contrast, firmly insists that dissatisfaction with clerical celibacy had nothing to do with his leaving the church last December (TIME, Dec. 30). In a new book called A Question of Conscience (Harper & Row), Davis, 44, claims that his decision to defect was the result of his years of theological study, which gradually convinced him that Catholicism could not justify its claim to be the one true church of Christ and instead had become a "zone of untruth...
...model code drafted by the American Law Institute, the new statute authorizes abortion whenever a pregnancy 1) threatens grave damage to the woman's physical or mental health, 2) results from rape or incest, or 3) is likely to produce a child with a severe mental or physical defect. Even then, abortions require unanimous approval by a hospital panel of three doctors. North Carolina has followed suit, but does not require panels. California's new law is similar to Colorado's but bars abortion of potentially defective children. In varying degrees, the same formula...
...another drinks nothing but brandy and egg whites-it looks as if someone had expectorated in it, says Sellers, in a fair sample of the film's scripted wit. And nearly everybody speaks in a pseudo-Castilian lisp that thoundth ath if the entire catht hath a thpeech defect...