Word: faulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Troublesome Lady. Crewmen aboard the Australian carrier could hardly be faulted for fearing that their ship is jinxed. Although the first indications are that the accident was the fault of Evans, Melbourne's record is replete with mishaps. Designed as a British warship during World War II, the ship soon acquired the title of "Troublesome Lady." Built to withstand North Atlantic cold, it became an oven in the warm waters off Australia. Despite air conditioning, engine-room temperatures sometimes soared to 153 degrees. After a year in Australia, the catapult system developed a structural defect that grounded the carrier...
...going on today in Viet Nam under U.S. Commander General Creighton Abrams. By last week the Army had mustered its case and through a number of spokesmen was spelling it out in Saigon. As so often before in the baffling, complicated war, it was a case easy to fault but difficult to refute, possessing an interior logic of its own, but lacking in reference points to reality on which all reasonable men might agree...
WHEN its best friends begin to fault it, the Pentagon is obviously in perilous straits. Last week Texas Democrat George Mahon, a longtime supporter of the military as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, rose in the House to complain that the Pentagon's "many mistakes" had created a public "lack of confidence." Mahon's old ally Mendel Rivers, head of the Armed Services Committee, grabbed a microphone to protest. "This is the way to tear down the military," he shouted. "Keep on saying it, and the enemies of the military will love...
...effect constructive change, of how slowly substantial improvements are won when they are won, how much effort, concern, dedication and patience are required, how much knowledge and trained skill are needed, and how many conscientious efforts have been and are even now being made. It is also easy to fault the revolutionaries among them for such things as their manifest egotism and self-righteousness, their unwillingness to listen, the impatient orthodoxy of their so-called radicalism, their superior moral attitude, the tendency of the quickest among them to equate brightness with wisdom and articulateness with understanding, their failure...
...fault, fellows. We've let our King of the Four Letter Words out into the open, and now the news media and everybody's sister have pounced on it and stripped it of its power. The Movement, as a matter of fact, is the main culprit. It crippled the word by allowing it to become a public symbol of rebellion. I'd bet that if Lyndon Johnson had another year in office, he would destroy "fuck" on national television, just as he destroyed "We Shall Overcome" and "the Ballot or the Bullet...