Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dieppe was paid for in full. So were the unhappiest years that any fighting men could have-years in which Canadian soldiers had chafed almost in vain for action. Almost in vain but not quite, for they had seen action, each time under circumstances which, through no fault of their own, were painful or disastrous...
...this is highly important; for the literal interpretation of these same texts did much to befog our minds and emasculate our policy in the years between the wars when our main fault was that we tried Christianity too hard; and there is grave danger that we may do it again...
According to Arthur Douropulos '31, secretary of the group, who teaches all courses, progress towards better use of English has been too slow and this has been largely the fault of the country's secondary schools. Even at Harvard the Committee finds many Freshmen who are not firmly grounded in spelling, punctuation, and grammar...
...labor relations. In a chandelier factory, where he worked for $2 a week, a woman's hand was smashed in an unguarded machine. Waldman, 17 and fresh from Yancherudnia in the Ukraine, was fired when he refused to sign a paper saying the accident was her fault...
...picture's chief fault is that the Hollywooden heads, in attempting to produce a "best-seller," have turned a simple, true story into a lurid piece of sensationalism. Instead of the inspiring epic recited by President Roosevelt in his famous 1942 radio address, one sees a movie distinguished by its attempts to turn Dr. Wassell into a Lou Gehrig or a Sergeant York...