Word: defectiveness
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...gallant young men made an effort to be soccer players, but essentially it was a pretense; they merely served to defect numerous Crimson shots at the Cornell goal by offering their bodies as a barrier. Clay pigeons (or gorillas) would have done just as well...
...famous fall, Denning concludes that there has been no "decline in the integrity of public life." To many critics, however, the judge's verdict on the main issue he was supposed to investigate, the security question, was far from reassuring. The report concedes that Profumo "disclosed a character defect which pointed to his being a security risk," adding that Christine might well have tried to "blackmail him or bring pressure on him to disclose secret information." Indeed, suggests Denning, Ivanov may have been under express orders from the Soviet government to blow up a scandal involving Profumo...
...suffered since birth from a narrowing of the valve between his heart and lungs, and a hole in the septum (wall) between the right and left upper chambers of the heart. Surgeon Joe Burge Jr. hooked the ten-year-old up to a heart-lung machine, closed the septal defect and widened the valve. Though still short, Jimmy is now a sturdy fifth-grader...
When a baby is born with a certain type of heart murmur and is later found to have these valve and septal defects, something must have gone wrong in the womb. But what? And when? Infections may cause some of the valve defects, but not the majority, and not the hole in the wall. What makes the impoverished Negro family from Vian (pop. 930), near the Arkansas border, so interesting to doctors seeking clues to the true nature of the trouble is the fact that four of the offspring had essentially the same heart defects as their mother, although they...
...Imperial Ballroom, earphones provided simultaneous translation in three languages. It was the second international conference on congenital malformations sponsored by the National Foundation-March of Dimes. The world's outstanding researchers were tackling an immense problem: one baby out of every 15 is born with some defect, be it physical, mental or chemical. In the U.S. alone, that means more than 250,000 victims each year...