Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given to cart them off to a parking lot for the night. Reason: Miss Truman is allergic to animals. Next day in Mobile, Ala., her concert manager set the record straight. Miss Truman loves animals, he said, and she is not allergic to them. It was all the fault of the Secret Service men who "made up the allergy angle to have the animals kept away from the auditorium because housing of the animals made the conditions somewhat hazardous...
...Fault for the lack of an audience does not lie with that traditional scapegoat. "Harvard apathy." It exists because local debates provide no audience appeal what-soever. By keeping to the old system of four speeches and two rebuttals, the debaters have minimized one of debating's most interesting features, the genuine clash of ideas. And by arguing the same subject time and time again during the year, they have reduced debating to the status of mental weight-lifting...
...Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, who dug up King Tut, and of several more. The biographical sketches carry the story of archeology nicely along, and if the atmosphere of the book is a bit dustier than that of Microbe Hunters, it is not so much Ceram's fault as the fault of his subject...
...paper-bound volume has only one fault--the pages are crowded...
Crisis after crisis (Iran, the Suez Canal, the announcement of a whacking new dollar deficit) had smitten the country just before and during the campaign, but none had found more than a hollow echo in the banalities of electioneering. They were too much a fault of the times to provide political ammunition. The necessity for rearmament was not an arguable point but a sober fact, demanding some ?1,300 million of expenditure by the voters in 1951-52, regardless of which party...