Word: defectiveness
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...statement concerning Kirkland's architecture will provoke dispute. Let it be said that some consider its solid Georgian design uninteresting, while others feel it is comfortable and warm. The courtyard shows a lack of imagination in its landscapings but a sunny day can obscure this defect...
...surface, delinquency in "good" families (where slum conditions and juvenile gangs are not a factor) seems hard to explain. But where the two psychiatrists were able to study both child and parents, they reported, the child's "defect" was always traceable to one parent or both...
...love for the church of Jesus Christ is such that I cannot keep quiet when a defect becomes evident to me," writes the Rev. Edward S. Zelley Jr. of Trenton, N.J. in the current Christian Century. The defect that 34-year-old Pastor Zelley complains about is the average church's lack of emphasis on healing...
This was the table of operations: call a general strike, muster the mob in the labyrinthine municipal bazaar, then fight through central Teheran to Majlis Square, where the leaders would emerge and take charge. If all went well, the Black Spiders would incite army units to defect, the Reds would break out hidden stores of rifles and bazookas, and the general strike would turn into a revolution...
...picture approach in his campaign to restore confidence in the State Department. Foreign policy, he argued, must not only be concrete enough to work, it must also be coherent enough for the people to understand. In his congressional relations, he was careful to avoid Acheson's chief personality defect--contempt for the ignorant. During his first seven months in office Dulles gut in 32 appearances before congressional committees, held 58 unofficial meetings with congressional groups...