Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakness, palpitation and nausea" within a few minutes of taking either. Another had pain, diarrhea, itching and swelling of the lips ten minutes after either kind of pill. All this means that if a patient gets sick after taking a drug, it may not be the drug's fault...
...predominant fault of the bad English encountered today is not the crude vulgarism of the untaught but the blithe irresponsibility of the taught. The language is no longer regarded as a common treasure to be hoarded and protected as far as possible. Rather, it is loot . . . to be played with, squandered, plastered on for one's adornment. Literary words imperfectly grasped, meanings assumed from bare inspection, monsters spawned for a trivial cause-these are but a few of the signs of squandering . . . The advertiser bids you 'slip your feet into these easygoing leisuals and breathe a sigh...
...coach," says Jack Barnaby, "has a right to cry about his graduation losses. A man comes and a coach knows he'll have him for just three years. If he doesn't make plans to replace him, it's his own fault...
...double marriage and pleasure. Maud in Gibraltar (pipe, slippers, and dumplings), Nita in Karik (wine, dancing, and midnight swims). He was, as one of his crew noted, a genius. But he was also, and this, too, is duly noted, a saint. If things ended badly, it was not his fault in trying to take too much, but in wanting too little. He wanted only a single full life, and when events seemed about to force him into taking two, he nobly offered up his one to set things right...
...predecessor responsible for the climate of opinion. They have developed a Pied Piper theory of presidential leadership, with a main thesis that a pair of malicious individuals single-handedly bent all of society to their purposes. This is surely fatuous. Roosevelt and Truman may well have been at fault, when viewed with the aid of hindsight, for not restraining the high vintage liberalism of their twenty years in office more efficiently, but no one man can create such a spirit out of nothing...