Word: defectiveness
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...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...
...signed confession, Quinim's assassin, a lance corporal named Chy Kong, charged Quinim with trying to overthrow the government and bribing neutralist officers to defect to the Pathet Lao forces encamped in the Plaine des Jarres, where at week's end fighting broke out that caused 20 casualties. Asked if he agreed that Quinim had been proCommunist, Premier Souvanna Phouma replied simply: "He is dead. Peace to his soul...
...thundering that three directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall), 13 stars, ten costars, 12,000 extras, and 1,000 buffaloes have done in How the West Was Won. Even the troublesome match-lines where the images from three projectors come together-the process's persistent defect-have been masked by photographers clever at lining up the joinings with telegraph poles, cabin corners and lonesome pines...
...with him at the Casa-B, much less leave the Square with him for a quiet life on the Cape. As written, the part of Gaylord is too much sermon and too simple to offer a meaningful alternative to Gentry's glittering evil. Hoagland's acting accentuates this defect in the script; his morality has no teeth...
Though it will take many years to determine whether the disease can be completely prevented, Drs. Sternlieb and Scheinberg have encouraging evidence from several patients. One boy from a Wilson's disease family was diagnosed as having the defect when he was only ten months old. He has been treated for eight years and is still well; his older sister, whose case was not diagnosed in time, became severely ill by age twelve...