Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame among Russian maneuvers, Japanese aggression, Chinese dupes and traitors, U.S. naiveté-including Yalta's giveaway of Manchuria and the disastrous U.S. attempt (the Marshall mission) to mediate between the Nationalists and the Reds. But he does not dodge his own responsibility, charges himself with the basic fault of again and again having dealt with Russia and the Communists as men of good will. Each time the Chinese Reds were nearly defeated, "coexistence"' again saved them: "We were overconfident . . . We erred in being too lenient...
...even here it was hard to find fault, for the notion that higher education would make men over into a new image was the unasked for bequest of a society incapable of accepting its own limitations and yet equally incapable of removing them in home, church, or school
...must openly admit that my leadership was at fault," said the 69-year-old Generalissimo. But he added that he "could well understand the indignation of the masses" at the court-martial verdict that completely cleared a U.S. Army master sergeant in the shooting of a Chinese "Peeping Tom" before his house...
...night," he says, "and wonder whether I am doing good or not. Then I comfort myself with the thought that Gillette was a man who made a wonderful safety razor that enabled one to shave without cutting one's throat. It is not Mr. Gillette's fault if people take the blade out of the razor and cut their wrists with...
...example, have signed 322 collegians since 1955-but igo have already been released, and only 17 are rated as likely prospects. College authorities estimate that, of the students who sign baseball contracts, 75% never go on to get their college degrees. "It's the damned scouts' fault,'' says Bibb. "They paint a rosy picture to the kids, promise 'em anything. The kids don't have sense enough to know any better...