Word: failings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychological sand trap worse than the course's 130 real ones, a place for bogeys and double bogeys. Ike played six rounds in seven days, stayed in the gos most of the time, his strong long game suffered from a duffer's tendency to fail to follow through on some drives, and his short game, never too good anyway, found him three-putting many a green. The President, explained Golf Pro Norman Palmer, was "having trouble concentrating because of world problems...
...unique nature and position of Harvard's Honors program is perhaps in order. At the end of his Freshman year, a student signs up for Honors or for non-Honors. (This has been the practice until now; from now on, all Freshmen will be Honors candidates until they fail one of the three hurdles). The Honors student must take more courses than his non-Honors colleague, and is given, in many departments, individual tutorial. This consists of a weekly or fortnightly meeting with his tutor, when the two discuss the reading assigned by the tutor, or perhaps discuss a paper...
...lecture system, the committee also acknowledged the wisdom of the desire for greater independent study with a tutor. This had always been a fundamental principle of the Honors program at Harvard, but had not always been practiced as such. The program for non-Honors students--those who fail the Sophomore and/or Junior test--was not quite so laudable: the Committee at first recommended special courses for non-Honors students, apparently somewhat pragmatically oriented. This feature was excised after a full Faculty discussion, and the non-Honors program remained but a plea for tutorial for non-Honors Seniors in the Houses...
...behind them the nation, moved into the third week of the nlp-and-tuck Middle East crisis, and it was still too soon to guess whether Holloway was headed for success or failure. "The irony of it," as a Pentagon officer put it, "is that he can fail greatly but only succeed quietly." But already Admiral Holloway and his men, by their show of great power and great restraint, have laid out some fundamental guidelines for their countrymen and their allies on Lebanon's shifting sands...
...blood and pumped both ways-some back to the lungs, some out through the arteries. Kent also had his aorta and pulmonary artery transposed and had a narrowed valve leading from heart to lungs. With this miserably inefficient arrangement, the boy's heart was overworked, was doomed to fail when he grew older...