Word: defectiveness
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...Father Weigel sees it, three qualities characterize the style, or stance, of American Protestantism: 1) audacity, 2) intellectuality, 3) modernity. In each he finds a virtue and the defect of that virtue. By audacity, Father Weigel points out, he does not mean "a bullying spirit, much less rudeness." It consists rather of "a naive and energetic thrust forward from an idea sincerely conceived. From Luther's day onward, simplicity of soul and freedom of the spirit were always characteristic of the churches of the Reform." Liberal or fundamentalist, the Protestant derives an "enthusiastic assuredness" from his "unconcern for tradition...
...Moscow press and radio, and beneath the smiling surface, sinister Vatican plots were being hatched. The Reds issued a four-alarm warning that priests, monks and nuns in civilian clothes had been detailed to mingle with athletes and officials from the Soviet and its satellites to persuade them to defect. According to Moscow's daily Trud, a special receiving center for defectors had been set up in a monastery outside Rome, and "thousands of clergymen and monks and young people from the lower echelons of Catholic organizations are to make contact with visitors of all nationalities . . . and subject them...
Twilight Genes. Said Montreal's Dr. F. Clarke Fraser: probably no more than 10% of birth defects are caused by defective genes. If both parents have an abnormal dominant gene, the child is sure to carry the defect. But there are many twilight-zone genes, which some individuals carry without showing ill effects but may pass on, in crippling form, to their offspring. Then there are recessive genes, which may be so elusive that the experts cannot hope to trace cause and effect...
George W. Corner, is that of the Dionne quintuplets. Developed from a single fertilized ovum, which then repeatedly sub divided, all the girls had the defect. Fortunately, it was minor : nothing more than a slight webbing between the second and third toes of each foot...
Mary Richardson, 32, wife of a Jacksonville truck driver, had blackouts for years before she went to Boston's famed Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1958. Doctors found that she had, in severe form, a two-pronged heart defect: because of hardening and scarring (perhaps from rheumatic fever), the aortic valve does not open wide enough to let out a full supply of blood, and at the same time it does not close tight enough to keep blood from sloshing back into the heart and adding to its work load...