Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hindsight. In Pittsburgh, Judge Joseph P. Willson disallowed the Pennsylvania Railroad's plea that Gandy Dancer Jesse Q. Casso had obtained his job under false pretenses, ruled that it was the railroad's fault for giving Casso a rating of 20-30 vision in his glass right...
...months ago, Punch's Editor Malcolm Muggeridge had lifted a rare voice of dissent from Britain's course, comparing Eden to Chamberlain: "The fault of Chamberlain was not in sacrificing Czechoslovakia, but in believing that Nazi aggression and Hitler's long record of perfidy would thenceforth come to an end. It was Chamberlain's sincerity, not his villainy, which led him astray. His crime was to make a fool of himself, and therefore...
...believe," says he, "that I am not going too far in saying that [U.S.] education at the high-school level is mediocre. The fault does not lie with the teaching staff. The tenets of democratic egalitarianism are so strong in the United States that they assume a downright metaphysical importance. The postulate goes this way: All minds must have an equal chance at the start. They are like fertile fields; all that needs to be done is to sow them with method and prevent their differences from growing more marked, since differences contradict the principle of fundamental equality...
...auto accident: "Trying to pass a road truck . . . he zigged when he should have zagged"]. I now am receiving [copies of it] from quite a few friends in the U.S. with a certain amount of biting comment, which I would gladly accept if it had been my fault. However, I enclose an eyewitness report (American), and in view of that, I don't think it is fair to write as you did, as it apparently gives me the reputation...
Less poignant than the highway casualty lists, but still a perilous fault of the highway network, is its increasing failure to nourish the nation's economic life. Highways form a major circulatory system for U.S. industry and agriculture; when they become worn out and clogged with automotive arteriosclerosis, as they have in the past 15 years, the economy suffers. In the same vein, the Vice President pointed out. the country's roads would present "appalling inadequacies" in time of war or catastrophe...