Word: drawbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawback to ambiguity in U.S. pronouncements on the Far East is that Free Asians have come to read it as a forerunner of retreat. This is understandable: U.S. ambiguity about its plans in Korea was followed by stalemate and armistice, in Indo-China by retreat, and in the Tachens by evacuation. Today, even a hint of further retreat seriously demoralizes those Asian political leaders who have crawled out on a limb to support U.S. policy. For example, in the politically sensitive Philippines, President Ramon Magsaysay last month summoned all his prestige to fight through the Philippine Senate a resolution backing...
Liebman, 52, says he knows that a scene is good when it gives him "a tingle up and down my spine . . . The tingle is created by some element of beauty." But there is a drawback: "I'm very sentimental, and sometimes I get the tingle from schmalz." Occasionally, the tingle is replaced by a cringe. Says Liebman: "I cringe at bad taste, at inept jokes, at sloppiness or any lack of fastidiousness." This season Liebman cringed during rehearsals of his swing production of Pinafore "because it was too bop. We had the contemporary beat but we had lost Gilbert...
Most book-business insiders blame the shop owner himself for his plight. His chief drawback: no business sense. Among those who think so is Chicago's Carl Kroch, president of the largest independent bookstore in the U.S. Says Bookseller Kroch, who has just spent $500,000 on refurbishing his own flourishing Chicago store on Wabash Avenue: "Too many people-little old ladies-think bookselling is a nice thing, so they start off with too little capital and a tiny stock...
...Scotchply can be worked like wood or molded like metal; it is shatterproof, rotproof, waterproof, can be sawed, drilled, cemented or polished. As production began last week, the company saw a potential market for Scotchply in everything from air frames to auto parts and delicate printed circuits. The one drawback: its current high price of $2 a lb., which the company hopes to cut down with mass production...
...problem of defining a "beginning college course" may be the only drawback to the new national advanced placement program of the College Entrance Examination Board, Harlan P. Hanson, Director of Advanced Standing, said yesterday...