Word: failed
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Admission. Tiebout thinks that for such characters, standard psychotherapy -building up the patient's ego and self-confidence-is sadly misplaced. He is convinced that an alcoholic who stubbornly tries to defeat the habit all by himself is sure to fail. A.A.'s major discovery, says the psychiatrist, is that the first essential step is the alcoholic's admission that alone he is helpless against alcohol...
There, he dons his white leather "Wyoming lace" (chaps), climbs on a horse and pitches in. Better than anyone else on the ranch, Bob knows when a steer is as fat as it will get and should be shipped, or when a cow has begun to fail as a calf-producer and should be slaughtered. He picks the calves to be saved for breeding, marks the ones to be sold. The shipping and branding is a year-round job, with fall the busiest time. Kleberg stays on a horse "because I can make more money on a horse." His slim...
...fail to see the validity of your criticism of the men on the ballot or the manner in which they were nominated. I also object to the questionable reporting which would tend to confuse and mislead the members of the class of '48. Paul G. Haskell...
...wonder," says Davis, "is not that our ears sometimes fail us, but rather that they stand the racket as well as they do." At 120 decibels (the noise of a nearby plane engine), the ear begins to feel uncomfortable; at 130 decibels, it tickles; at 140 decibels (near a powerful air-raid siren), it hurts, and grows temporarily deaf. But even a shattering noise rarely causes complete deafness. The commonest causes of deafness (besides old age) are 1) inflammation of the middle ear (otitis media), usually due to a head cold; and 2) a bony growth in the middle...
Freedom to Fail. In Geneva, the International Civil Aviation Organization failed to conclude a multilateral civil aviation agreement. The U.S., United Kingdom and France wanted to include the "fifth freedom," i.e., the right of an airline to carry traffic between two nations other than its own. Smaller countries, led by Mexico, Canada and Portugal, defeated the proposal, fearing that the big nations would monopolize international traffic...