Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were still demands that Nehru fire Krishna Menon, India's lean and irascible Minister of Defense, whom many Congress Party leaders blame for Nehru's past disregard of Red China's encroachments. Loyal to his friends as always, Nehru answered sharply that if there was any fault, it was his own. And Menon himself seemed to be taking hesitant steps toward personal rehabilitation. In a radio address urging Indians to volunteer for the Territorial Army, Menon cried: "In the last few days, weeks and months the country has been, quite rightly, legitimately concerned about a threat...
...show's pervasive fault is that, instead of offsetting sweetness with lightness, it turns sticky with sweetness and light. Though often attractive, the abbey scenes come off too pretty; though sometimes fetching, the children's scenes come off too cute. Even Mary Martin, however deft, comes off a little too lovable. The milk of human kindness is not enough for The Sound of Music. It insists on the syrup, till even the Nazis seem mere bad goblins in a fairy tale...
...eliminated without undue hardship. The industry favors a plan adopted by Canadian railroads, which has helped cut down featherbedding by not replacing firemen working on freights or in the yards who have died or retired. Privately, many railroadmen concede that the U.S. situation is not entirely the unions' fault; U.S. railroads are often run inefficiently, with management clinging to ancient practices as fervently as do the unions. Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago & North Western Railroad, would like to put railroad employees on an eight-hour day, pay them for overtime as other industries do-and insist...
...steel strike, I would like to quote La Rochefoucauld: "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side...
...discuss the issue of national "drift" in 1956, were trying to avoid such words as "purpose" and "softness" in favor of Candidate Stuart Symington's line: "The people are not too flabby to do the job; they're just being misled." Yet Democrats could not convincingly fault Dwight Eisenhower's leadership without saying where they themselves wanted the nation to go. Inescapably, the debate would turn to purpose...