Word: defectiveness
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...Paint Your Wagon suffers less from a shortage of women than from a shortage of wit, from imagining that copious research is a substitute for bright conversation. This defect is an unfortunate handicap for a show that is otherwise a pleasant enough addition to the Broadway scene...
...sense, President Truman's offer had the defect of all proposals for disarmament or arms limitation: it attacked the symptom rather than the disease. Yet in an atomic age, any fundamental plan for international security is bound to include arms limitation and international inspection...
...report revived an issue that excited considerable debate in World War II, when many athletes were turned down for military service because of some physical defect...
...remarked that he had bought a special photoelectric cell for his experiments. Such a cell would be useful for observing flashes of light given off by the lithium-helium reaction. Richter also said that he was using an Argentine material-and Argentina is a producer of lithium. The main defect in the method: only a few particles in a million prove effective, reducing the efficiency of such processes to the vanishing point. Proof by Isotope. The consensus last week seemed to be that Physicist Richter may well have gotten promising results on a tiny laboratory scale and jumped...
...From Here to Eternity" avoids emphasis of one important aspect of Army reality: the repetitiousness, monotony and boredom. Since other authors hand pushed that atmosphere to the point of reproducing it, the contantly imaginative writing and reliance on action has more of a virtue than a defect. Certainly these are minor lapses, in a book that gives an extraordinary impression of honesty...