Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Testifying on the Mundt-Nixon bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Communist Boss William Z. Foster was asked if U.S. Communists would fight against Russia. Said Foster: "If there is a war, the fault will lie not with the Soviet Union but with the Wall Street monopolists . . . We are not going to fight against the Soviet Union...
...fixing the blame for sterility, too many doctors (most of whom are men) still ignore the male's role. Dr. Stallworthy found defective male secretions at fault in 35% of his cases, defective ovulation in only...
...near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws...
...Fault." After Pickett's charge had failed and the most optimistic Southerner knew that the Confederates had lost the day, General Lee, "the saddest man in the Army of Northern Virginia," passed among his retreating, exhausted men, begging them to keep their ranks and assuring them: "It was my fault this time." He saw an aide lashing at a balky horse and begged: "Oh, don't do that. I once had a foolish horse and I found gentle measures so much the best." Sir Arthur Fremantle found Confederate General Longstreet sitting glumly on a fence and said tactlessly...
...offending one of its 3,900 members) almost objectionably objective. "We have a duty," said Gould's log, "to give the reader some idea of how near the truth a broadcast or communique may be . . ." And the A.P. is encouraging its own Managing Editors Association to find fault. Many an M.E. thinks the world's best news service could still be considerably improved...