Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None of this seemed to invalidate the regretful conclusions of the board. But it made it difficult not to feel that the fault rested as much with the Army as with the grey-clad youths who faced dismissal. The Army's botched handling of the dismissal itself left cadets confused about their status and their future. Technically, their dismissal was "under honorable conditions," though in fact they were branded otherwise. The cadets' case was best put by Harold Loehlein, honor cadet, captain-elect of the 1951 football team, arid president of the first class. Said...
Leopold's major fault was perhaps that he wanted too much to be a King. As constitutional monarch of the Belgians, he had adamantly, and often bravely, refused to take a back seat while his ministers ran the country. His willfulness had led him into many dark hours, the darkest of which was his surrender of the Belgian army to Hitler in 1940. In recent years, Leopold's stubborn refusal to give up the throne of which more than half his people felt he was no longer worthy deeply rent Belgium...
Ruth Ford plays the actress-wife of the playwright. She starts off with a quiet, sensitive portrayal of a woman who has a fairly rational enjoyment of life. But Lenormand is out to get her, too. Miss Ford is a fine actress, and it is not her fault that the sincerity of her performance forces her to whine like a whipped cur with a post-nasal drip for long stretches toward the end of the play...
Deeper than the shortages of men and materials are the vexing problems of inadequate planning and inefficient administration. This is not altogether bluff Charlie Wilson's fault. At the outset, the President had decided that, as far as possible, production chores would be carried out by old-line Government departments. For most of the year, Wilson has been riding herd on dozens of bureaus and agencies which were not always going in the same direction. But when he reported to Washington, he was given almost unlimited powers. He has not always used them in the slam-bang way that...
...startling statistic. Of 1,800 women who took the test, only 45 were declared eligible to become Junior Management Assistants.* The men did a little better, but most of them failed too. That, the Times thought, raised the question whether the exam itself was not at fault, rather than the students...