Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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faubus (faw-bus), v.i.; FAUBUSED, FAUBUSING. 1. To commit an error of enormous magnitude through malice and ignorance. 2. To make a serious error, to commit a fault through stupidity or mental confusion. Syn. Blunder, err, bollix...
...writer whose search for meaning amid his readers' hopeless letters wears his life away, Fritz Weaver cannot hope to out-decibel bellow-mumble-grunt O'Brien; and his adapted lines haven't the edge to slice through to the audience; but this may not be all O'Brien's fault, for Weaver drowns in turbulent philosophical soliloquies which West raced over...
...second (cashier's) check-payable only on condition that he get more time to arrange the bond-which Acting Interior Secretary Hatfield Chilson frigidly ignored. At such intransigence, Barton lamented: "If the Indians don't get that land developed, it sure won't be my fault. I've done all I could for 'em. I've done my best...
...something that has happened to many a good, red-blooded American. Said Beck: "I've joined the army of hundreds of thousands all over the country that have been indicted for income taxes. It's happening every day all over America." Anyhow, his troubles were all the fault of the meddlesome U.S. Congress-which, cried Dave, has "one or more" former convicts among its members...
...some 600 delegates that Roman Catholicism had failed to provide its share of leaders for the U.S. Catholic graduates, said Ellis, have not, by and large, won "those influential posts wherein the mind of a nation is so often molded in a long-range manner through scholarship." One "great fault" of the Catholic school system, added Ellis, is a "certain failure to stimulate Catholic youth to think for themselves...