Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disgruntled Guthrie, the report said, had been dead right. There had been damaging delay. Generally at fault were the $1-a-year men, whose integrity was not questioned, but who had been, the report said in fancy language, "unable to divorce themselves from their subconscious gravitation to their own industries." Specifically at fault was Philip D. Reed, "with [whose] ability or accomplishments" the Committee was decidedly not impressed...
...also learned a lot about democracy. A less steadfast man might have been sickened by the mess, might have lost his faith in popular government. Not so Judge Ferguson. He found it no fatal fault that democracy gives its opportunities to the weak and vicious as well as to the virtuous...
Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile, and said he was at fault...
...does not let grass grow under his feet. His very first speech after his enthronement was a call to a unified Christendom ("The world has been much more conscious of the Church's divisions than of its unity in the fundamental principles of the Gospel. This is our fault and we ought to be bitterly ashamed of it."); a ringing redefinition of democracy ("The test of democracy is not whether the majority prevails but whether the minority is tolerated."); and a plea for social reform, culminating in a proposal that all corporations should voluntarily write a dividend limitation into...
...heavenward earth-love as a horse goes for oats-see parts of his Come In, for instance. When he goes limpingly, as he does on many pages of his book, it is less because of his age than because he has come more & more to favor his worst poetical fault-his rascally independence, based on preternatural selfesteem. When full of this-and he is only occasionally entirely free of it-Frost writes like a wise man ensconced in a pickle...