Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tunner as "cold in manner except with a few intimates . . . brilliant, competent . . . the kind of officer whom a junior officer is well advised to salute when approaching his desk." One of Tunner's fellow professional officers expanded on LaFarge's theme. Said he: "Will's great fault is his impatience. That business of wanting something yesterday, not today, is a little hard to take." But Tunner's toughness, which has led some of his present subordinates to christen him "Willie the Whip," gave his men efficiency and esprit de corps. Even when removed from his command...
...Jack Martin stepped into a fast pass from Co-Captain Jack Garrity and lined a 50-feet screen shot past Crimson goalie Brad Richardson. Richardson played well, stopping 29 drives, many of them close in. The only goal which was at all his fault was the tying point, scored by Dick Kelley at 5:58 after Richardson failed to clear on Garrity's drive...
...Dean's Office was particularly disturbed by complaints coming in from girls' colleges and from girls' parents that the parietal rules were being flagrantly violated. The council felt, however, that the fault lay mainly in the great variation between Houses which encouraged violators in the less liberal ones...
...looked directly at Judge Leibowitz. He talked out of the side of his mouth, and his words came hard and fast. "Look, judge," he said, "sending him to jail isn't going to correct conditions . . . What do you want us to do? It wasn't his fault. Not any more than it was ours. It was an accident." Joe paused, and there was a note of bitterness in his voice. "And you're not going to reform him by sending him to jail for a long time, judge." Judge Leibowitz looked surprised. The blue-ribbon jury...
...Gentlemen: We are unable currently to give you any significant facts about your business. You will understand that this is not our fault. In the matter of product, our technicians are so busy that they have been unable to agree on a model. In the matter of manpower, our labor troubles have been such that we have been unable to figure costs . . . Even if we had decided what we were to make and how we were to make it, our conclusions would be tentative until reviewed by the . . . directors . . . Even if we knew what we were going...