Word: fault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welcome to the visitors was sympathetic but wary. In it was some of the exasperation of a man whose best friend is down on his luck: there was a readiness to help, a realization that the friend's desperate situation wasn't exactly, or entirely, his own fault-and some annoyance. Dwight Eisenhower, in a casual press-conference remark at a family reunion in St. Louis last week, caught some of that mood. Said he: "Their situation is terrible and they must have sympathy, but we must realize that we are not a bottomless...
...National Association of Radio News Directors took a one week look at the four news associations (Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Transradio Press). Last week, the committee issued a 12,000-word report described by N.A.R.N.D. President Sig Mickelson as a "fact-finding rather than a fault-finding project." If not faults, the committee found plenty coming," of the flaws. report "The most declared, "is glaring in short the field of writing." Some press associations "use their radio circuits to break in green men: When they begin to get good they are transferred to the newspaper wire." Thus...
With something more than his customary charity, Columnist Pegler conceded that this lapse was not all her fault: "In Atlanta, she was ... under the influence of an unwise, emotional apologist, Ralph McGill, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, an insensate Roosevelt-lover who undoubtedly had swayed many inferior minds . . . and deprived others...
...Much Boomerang." At week's end, British critics found Goossens a man who "gives an impression of almost frightening efficiency," although they found his Berliners, by comparison with Beecham's Royal Philharmonic, slightly drab. Some found fault with his Mozart "Jupiter" (too dull). But after Roy Harris' brassy Third Symphony and Goossens' own Oboe Concerto (written for and played by his brother, the great oboist Leon Goossens), they had to admit that "the results [of his efficiency] certainly [were] confirmed a hundredfold...
...Nothing Improper." After 28 hours of vibrant silence, Harry Vaughan issued a statement. Its gist: it was all his fault, but he was innocent. ". . . There was nothing improper in any manner regarding the gifts of these units . . ." it read. "I had a talk with two old friends of mine . . . The subject of deep freeze units came up and I said that I would like to have...