Word: defectiveness
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...start of the constitutional debate last fall, everyone recognized that the great defect in the Third Republic's Constitution was administrative instability; 106 Cabinets had fallen in 70 years. The M.R.P. wanted to achieve stability with a stronger executive. The Socialists argued for legally enforced party discipline. Both these proposals were beaten. It remained a question whether the proposed new Constitution would stabilize France's stormy politics...
...than the Red Army's. He was born a peasant in a nation that is 75% peasant. He came up politically as a peasant spokesman. He has never lost his peasant temperament; he is solid, slow in speech and thought, stubborn in principle and action. His chief political defect is a peasant's sly caution, often carried to the point of hesitation at moments of decision. Even his only known hobby has the peasant touch: he is a beekeeper...
...That the majority of the people of England are destitute and miserable, ill-clothed, ill-fed, ill-educated. 2) That the cause of this misery is the unequal distribution which . . . has been made of the products of their labour. 3) That the cause of that cause is a defect in the government. 4) That every enlightened and honourable person ought to excite them [the common people] ... to the temperate but irresistible vindication of their rights...
...features contributions by Professors Elton Mayo, George F. F. Lombard, John B. Fox, and Jerome F. Scott. While the men concede that the financial loss in labor turnover and absenteeism resulting from neglect of worker morale can be over-looked by firms enjoying wartime prosperity, they assert that the defect may prove fatal to many companies in the highly competitive period expected after hostilities cease...
...superior musical. A shiny period piece, it has approached its job with talent and invested a fortune with taste. Verbal comedy aside, it is an unusually well-rounded show-good music, likable lyrics, attractive dancing, engaging performers, stylish sets, gorgeous costumes, not too awful a book. The one defect of such virtue is that by keeping to its sunny plateaus, Bloomer Girl never scales any peaks...