Word: fault
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Have you ever had an accident?" one prospective jumper asks. The woman darts her eyes to him. "Well, usually it's their own fault...
Helms, as Powers sees him, was far from the stereotype superspy. Neither dashing nor adventurous, he was cool and cautious, perhaps to a fault. A colleague recalls him remarking about a project: "Let's do it right, let's do it quietly, let's do it correctly." He was especially skeptical of large-scale covert actions because he felt they drew too much attention to the CIA and jeopardized its main function: collecting intelligence...
...understand the position Finley was in; he really didn't have any money, but it was his own fault. That shows you what greed will do. In a matter of two years, he destroyed a great team," he says...
...Four Feathers, he singlehanded, and almost overnight, turned the moribund British movie industry-and his company, London Films-into an international force in the 1930s. Indeed, about the only place it did not work for him, at least initially, was Hollywood. But that really was not his fault: the place had no hotels or restaurants that met his exacting standards...
Somewhere in this melange of mysticism and morality lurks some talent. But the actors don't have a prayer in the hands of Richardson and Berney. As the midwife says to the ailing sinner, Barbara Allen, lying on the bed after bearing her witch-child, "It ain't yer fault. It were the fruit of yer husband. There weren't nothing you could...