Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government and see what time would bring. During the past 18 months, those who remained have lost their doubts. In Pusan this week, in a coffee shop lighted by one feebly glowing electric light bulb, a reporter talked with a South Korean newspaperman who had planned originally to defect to the Communists, but who at the last minute had changed his mind. Critical of Rhee, protesting that the old man's stubbornness has cost his nation dearly, he, nevertheless, is a staunch Rhee supporter on the straightforward ground that Rhee is the strongest political force in Korea today...
...trouble is not actually a loss of memory, says Dr. Suter in the A.M.A. Journal, but a defect in the part of the brain which governs associations between objects and the words which stand for them. This seems to be a specific region on the dominant (usually the left) side of the brain. It may have been damaged by a stroke, or by hardening of the cerebral arteries. In such cases, nothing can be done. But almost as often, Dr. Suter found in a series of 20 patients, the forgetting of names is caused by a tumor in this Association...
...This defect has been largely remedied in the past few years. Company sizes have been largely uniform, with various operation sub-contracted to other organizations if especially large order are received...
...least interesting of the fried post-mortems of 1952 is the reminder of an old and growing defect of the U.S. political system. Where party discipline is almost nonexistent, the leadership of the opposition cannot be institutionalized. Governor Stevenson, a man without an organized personal faction, shortly (Jan. 12) to be without office and without patronage, may exercise genuine leadership of his party by the sheer power of tongue and pen. But if he does, Stevenson will be the first American who ever managed...
...overwhelming defect about Snows is that it is based on a formation used in the original book to develop a character, yet disembowels character study by substituting pageantry for perception. It seem like a waste, somehow...