Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tain had "plotted" France's defeat in order to seize personal power. He maintained that Pétain had secretly ordered cooperation with the Allies in North Africa. Testily he exchanged taunts with ex-Premier Paul Reynaud. If Pétain had erred, said Weygand, it was the fault of "his evil genius," Vichy's Chief of Government Pierre Laval...
...died. When at last the Mayflower sailed back to England, the harvest came in, and a gift of corn from Squanto increased the group ration by another peck of fresh meal. But the seven acres planted by the Pilgrims themselves were a dismal failure. This, said Bradford, was the fault of "ye badness of ye seed, or lateness of ye season, or both, or some other defecte...
...serious educator can afford to neglect this study. Many educators may disagree with the conclusions of the Committee, but no one can find fault with their setting of the problems of education. I personally do not like their emphasis upon "tradition." If one chooses to be etymological and to cover by "tradition" whatever has been handed down from earlier ages, good. But I like to distinguish between the Golden Rule and Euclid on the one hand and such items as Cabinet responsibility on the other. The first two are discoveries of something of absolute and universal value. The last...
...Wildest Luxury." He told correspondents in Rome that UNRRA fell far short of meeting Europe's needs. But, said he, the fault was not UNRRA's. He blamed the governments of nations which "still have what to the famished people of liberated Europe must seem like the wild est sort of luxury." And these govern ments were not living up to their commitments. Describing the complete con fusion into which UNRRA's supply posi tion had fallen, Lehman said: "Availabilities change hour by hour and it is now practically impossible to plan any long-range program...
...much was the fault of the U.S.? After promising 100,000 tons of pork to UNRRA for the last half of 1945, the U.S. had supplied 7,000 tons and can celled the rest of the allocation. The U.S. Army had 50,000 or more surplus trucks in Europe. But only 3,022 had been released to UNRRA, which needed trucks to haul food as badly as it needed the food...