Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loves cockfighting and beauty contests, dancing, American clothes, American movies. If Americans think he is evasive, it is because his natural courtesy is so great that he does not want to offend. If his greatest fault is his imitativeness, it is the U.S. of the past two decades that he has imitated. He has grown up like the heir to a rich estate-as rich and as little exploited as any in the Orient-whose guardian has been unable either to plan for him or to set him an example that he could follow...
...good man was General Sir Henry Royds Pownall, who only a fortnight earlier had become Britain's Far Eastern Commander. The shortness was no fault of his: he was promoted to be Chief of Staff in the Supreme Command. The grimness was Malaya's: half its tin mines in the hands of the Japs, one-sixth of its rubber plantations lost, Singapore threatened, all of its strategic and material riches poised as if under an auctioneer's mallet: going . . . going...
...Burma Road has been a headache to the men who run it. Torrential rains, merciless bombing, malaria, red tape, British blockade, and technical ignorance have cursed the life of its officials. All these things Newsman Stowe airily brushed aside to come down like a Yunnanese landslide on one single fault: graft. Corruption, he implied, has caused: 1) swollen profits of greedy trucking firms; 2) indiscriminate dumping of war materials just within China's borders; 3) the failure of needed medical goods to get beyond Rangoon; 4) use of the Road's limited capacity to haul luxuries...
...certain valuable function in glorifying the American family as Andy Hardy. My mother wouldn't throw his autograph into the waste basket, if he sent it to her. And Judy Garland has a very nice voice. We are merely trying to prove that it wasn't entirely our fault for going to the movie in the first place...
...defection of the .38-caliber pistol in the Philippines as a defense weapon was as much the Government's fault as anyone's. They were ordered from the Colt company with a barrel so overbored that a bullet could be dropped right through the barrel without sticking. Add to this the fact that they were furnished with a quite hard bullet, sharp on the point, it is easy to see why they pierced flesh without delivering the shock they could have given if made blunt or square-shouldered. The English furnished their .455-caliber with a hollow...