Word: drawbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans have again nominated a complete neophyte to politics. Bill Purtell has been a businessman all his life and a good one; he is president of the Holo-Krome Screw Company, which, despite the fact that it is non-unionized, has enjoyed admirable labor relations. Purtell's big drawback in industrial Connecticut is the fact that in the years since 1947 he has been both vice-president and president of the Connecticut Association of Manufacturers, an organization which has consistently opposed welfare measures in the state. Bill Benton's speechwriters are working hard on the record...
Working with the original plan, the department managed to divide the sophomores into tutorial sections of five or six men. The only drawback is that each sophomore will receive tutorial only two or three times a term. Non-honors juniors and seniors have sections of about 22 men a week, but some are non-concentrators...
Because Space Patrol is telecast from a former Hollywood movie lot where there is plenty of room for its spacemen to move around, it does not suffer from the "TV claustrophobia" of Eastern studios. A minor drawback of the show is the overabundance of interplanetary sound effects. The screams of jet planes drown out much of the dialogue. But it is no great loss, because the kids usually get the sense of what is going...
Vice President Alben Berkley is still considered a live possibility in Washington. No one has as many friends as Barkley among party leaders. His greatest drawback...
...cancer patients experimentally infected with the new virus, four showed substantial improvement. The one drawback: relief is only temporary. The virus did not kill all the cancer before dying itself, and patients could not be given a second dose 'because they had developed an immunity to it. Said the institute: "[There] is as yet no proof that a curative virus for man can be developed, only hope for such an outcome based upon the experiments...