Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Steinbeck is successful; his work is powerful propaganda; I love his little red colt [The Red Pony]. But I resent-as I resent the bathos of Dickens-John Steinbeck's attempt to engage my sympathies by means of "phony pathos." He has this same fault in Of Mice...
...took to the field will never again see your homes and many have lost forever their ability to work. But you have also dealt hard blows, and if 200,000 of our enemies now lie on the snow drifts, gazing with broken eyes at our sky, the fault is not yours. You did not hate them or wish them evil ; you merely followed the stern rule of war: kill or be killed...
...Finland was drawn into war through no fault of her own. Territorial demands were presented to her and she was prepared to satisfy these demands to a reasonable extent. This notwithstanding, the negotiations broke down...
...interrupting) "Yes, I know. It was all my fault. You remind me of it often enough. It's my fault that we're here now instead of in the Garden of Eden. But ... it hasn't been so bad, has it, Adam? We've had some happiness, haven...
Underlying Cromwell's blunder is a basic fault in the administration of our diplomatic service. American ambassadors receive salaries far too small for the expenses which they are bound to incur as official representatives of the United States Government. The result quite naturally is that very few men can afford to accept the responsibility of diplomatic service and we must expect incompetence...