Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claims that the invading Punjab tribesmen have the backing of the Pakistan, Government and points out that the raiders have recently used light artillery and are singularly well equipped. Pakistan naturally feels that Kashmir is wrongfully in the enemy camp, but at the same time claims that the fault lies not with her, but with an Indian which is charged with trying to ruin its rival and sabotage partition of the sub-continent. Foreign Minister Khan, unlike other representatives of accused nations wants to reach an agreement, not merely air the difficulties, fail his opponents with verbose charges, solemnly declare...
...Miami, when police arrested E. Manuel Berman for stealing 100 pairs of panties from a lingerie shop, he declared that it was all his wife's fault: "I'm glad I got caught. No telling what she'd have made me do next...
...train from Rome to Milan sallow, soft-voiced Communist Leader Fausto Gullo could only get an upper berth. A young fellow traveler respectfully offered his lower berth to the former Minister of Justice. But Gullo said: "It's my fault for not having booked early enough. I was late. I'm grateful, but really, one should pay for being late...
...examination grade is supposedly an indication of the student's learning. If that indication is derived so indiscriminately as to reward a student who has worked six hours as much or more than one who has worked six weeks, I judge there is to be a fault in the method of deriving it. And I question such transactions as that of the CRIMSON Editor with the Department of History. I merely wish to say that one ought not to revile Mr. Cramer's successes, where with a little reason it will be plain that the failures of the examination system...
Perhaps the magazine's greatest fault is its great dearth of material that might interest a general audience--its reports on NSA, SDA, SLID, and ADA lack appeal for few but members and friends of these alphabetical organizations. Only the lead article--by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.--which gives convincing arguments for the rejection of Communist Party support by any genuine liberal group, is worthy of careful reading. And this gives us little that Schlesinger has not presented elsewhere...