Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knock-down-drag-out fight in the middle of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Boulevard. While the Spreckelses whaled away with enough vigor to leave each other bruised about the head and ears (see cuts), crowds gathered and rooted. But the finish lacked punch. "It was all my fault," cried Lou Dell. "All right, honey," comforted Spreckels, "I don't care ... I know that we shouldn't be doing this. We might be hit by traffic." Explained Spreckels to the world at large: "It was just one of those family arguments...
...quickly silenced the hubbub over portal-to-portal pay suits. It had voted for unification of the armed services. It had managed to reduce appropriations from $1.2 billion to $2.5 billion (rival Democratic and Republican claims). It was not the Republicans' fault that income taxes were not reduced. They had tried...
...anyone did not know the makeup of the train, it was not the fault of Engineer Taft. He had put it together in the yards of the 80th Congress, where virtually every piece of major legislation had been given his boost or his boot. Frankly, loudly, obstinately and often, he had declared his stand. Some of his views (his opposition to David Lilienthal, to universal military training, to the State Department's Voice of America) had brought a storm of criticism. Other views (on the labor act, on tax-cutting) had won him both praise and condemnation. But nobody...
...Whitton report found fault with almost every phase of the Alberta welfare system ("incredibly centralized and bureaucratic . . . operating of its own volition with arrogance"). But its most scathing criticism was aimed at the Alberta child-adoption system, presided over by Superintendent of Child Welfare Charles B. ("Uncle Charlie") Hill...
...unusual device. Usually his secretary writes to him and in this way is able to congratulate him on remarkable feats of exclusive journalism and prophecy and thank him for kindnesses to others which he might not have the indelicacy to mention, although modesty is not his worst fault...