Word: failings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops. Whenever possible, the beleaguered garrisons pulled back; a few surrendered to the rebels. Though official communiques said little, there were reports that Batista's big Santiago garrison, recently reinforced with 2,000 fresh troops flown in, had twice attempted to break through the rebel ring only to fail. The government still talked of an "all-out offensive"; the talk lost much of its steam when the Santiago commander bought up every foot of barbed wire in town, spun it around Moncada barracks and along the airport road...
...Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad asked the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission for permission to drop 40 suburban passenger trains, citing lower freight revenues which fail to support suburban passenger losses...
...Cape Canaveral's Air Force missileers scheduled the first launching (limited range) of the U.S.'s newest "second generation" ICBM, the two-stage, 9,500-mile Titan (TIME, Oct. 13). But the big (90 ft., 110 tons) job never got off the ground: malfunction kicked in a "fail-safe" mechanism that automatically shut off the first-stage propulsion system seconds after it began to fire. Still, in the light of a fast-growing technology, backed by last week's huge achievements, the U.S. knew better than to condemn Titan on the strength of a failed launching...
Oedipus Recapped. Dr. May explained to his skeptical audience why he-and growing numbers of analysts in Europe and the U.S.-feel that a new approach, but not a new school, is needed. Trouble with previous analytic or "depth psychology" schools, he argued, is that they fail to get to the root of the problems that send patients to analysts nowadays. Thus both scientific progress and improvements in treatment are blocked. May & Co. are convinced that when conventional analytic treatment appears to effect a cure, in all probability something has been going on inside the patient that was different from...
...thorns bloodied his head; those about the cross wore armor-not of Roman soldiers but such as Cortes' men had worn when he brought the cross and sword to Mexico 435 years before. It was the annual Passion play* of Tlaltenalco, and there were tourists, who did not fail to note that Manuel's beard was paper. It came unstuck and fell off somewhere along his Via Dolorosa...