Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conversation also turned to the problem of keeping China alive. Wrote Sherwood: "Stalin felt that China would remain alive. He added that they needed some new leaders around Chiang Kai-shek . . . The President said the fault lay more with the Chungking government than with the so-called Communists...
...There is nothing more putting off to young university players than a slight suggestion that their etiquette or sportsmanship is in question . . . Smith sent a double fault to me, and another double fault to Joad. He did not get in another ace service till halfway through the third set of a match which incidentally we won . . . For me it was the birth of gamesmanship...
After an hour's debate, the jury of six students was unable to reach a verdict, which was understandable, since both driver and pedestrian were at fault, and witnesses were undependable. Professor Joiner declared the trial a classroom success. "I thought we had a good thing here," said he last week. "Now I'm sure...
...platform he installed the members of an Australian parliamentary delegation. When he rose to speak, he briefly delivered MacArthur's greetings, then referred to the bombing of Hiroshima in words the Japanese have not heard for some time. Said Brasshat Robertson: "This disaster was your own fault. . . The punishment given to Hiroshima was only part of the retribution of the Japanese people as a whole...
...else-' 'What do you mean?' I asked gently. Then he said there's a new order prohibiting indecent bathing suits and that I was a shameless girl. Why that dirty flatfoot wasn't even a Roman. My Mario says it's all the fault of that rowdy Christian Democrat Scelba, and the walloping that's in store for me when mama hears about it will be his fault too, the s.o.b...