Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Badoglio said that it was all Mussolini's fault. He said that the Duce explained plunging Italy into the war with the words: "In September everything will be over, and I need some thousands of dead to be able to sit at the peace table as a belligerent." Badoglio said that Mussolini had not consulted anyone before writing Hitler at the end of May 1940 that he would declare war by June...
...that may be the fault. Mine was to take my uncle - I had an extra uncle at that time . . . and fill him up and let him stand 15 minutes to give the water a chance to settle well. Then I inserted him in an exhausted receiver, which had the effect of sucking gold out through the pores. I have taken more than $11,000 out of that old man in a day and a half...
...found fault with the vagueness of his reference to a worldwide Good Neighbor policy ("a national cooperation with other nations...
...Nearly every fault can be traced back to the lack of a competitive spirit," reiterated the Council statement. To illustrate this point, the Food Committee report compared the House dining units to commercial restaurants, pointing out the differences in procedure...
Time and Training. By the close of the conference there had been plenty of argument, a good deal of agreement, some conclusions unanimous or purely personal. Some of the conclusions: U.S. fighter planes are the world's best. They have one common fault: decreased pilot visibility, inevitably sacrificed for bigger engines, better performance. Cadets could use more training, but could hardly crowd more into their schedules. The cadet now is "as busy as a one-legged man at a fanny-kicking contest." One young major summarized the problem : "Of course we'd like to turn out every...