Word: defectiveness
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...disease called keratoconjunctivitis, something like pinkeye, which pinked 2,000 San Francisco Bay welders last January (TIME, Jan. 26), was still active last week, had spread to Schenectady war workers and Manhattan civilians. It produces only a slight temporary defect of vision, but that is a mishap in war effort. Physicians are worried because a person may give it to someone else before he knows he has it. The examining fingers of one Manhattan eye doctor accidentally picked up the infection, gave it to 100 patients, the doctor's' family and himself (a virus, which is not killed...
...National Aeronautic Association. On a large board, picturing a photographic aerial map, players place planes which maneuver into combat, one player operating a fighter force which tries to prevent the other's bombers from hitting objectives below: power plant, docks, reservoir, bridge, etc. The game's defect is its complexity, which results from impossible situations, e.g., the spinner will often indicate moves to be made which the player cannot sensibly make...
...army, candidates have worked out a rogue's repertory for concealing disabilities. Concealment becomes especially ingenious, says Dr. Hulett, among candidates for West Point, Annapolis, the Air Force and Submarine Service, where physical standards are unusually high. "Even if the examiner discovers a defect, despite the effort to conceal it, a candidate will often argue its insignificance to the point where you will almost be persuaded to delete such from your report. Beware. . . ." Epidemics of concealed ill-health break out whenever army groups prepare to travel. Reason: seasoned soldiers fear nothing more than separation from their comrades...
Though their riveted M35 sustained some shell hits, no rivets bounced about inside. Main fault in the tanks: an incendiary bullet, stuck in the pencil-thin crevice between the revolving turret and hull, froze the turret tight. The tankers unfroze the turret with an acetylene torch. (This defect has been corrected in the newer M-45, which have a collar over the crevice...
...Stalin - a "little man, rather bow-legged," whose "left arm is slightly withered" and carried "close to his body, which almost hides the defect." When he laughs, he "laughs with his eyes...