Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many-perhaps a majority-of Britons expected Field Marshal Earl Alexander's fact-finding tour of Korea to become a fault-finding tour. They could not have been more wrong...
...consuming desire to be a great artist. His first big exhibit in Milan three years ago drew record crowds and won wholehearted praise from Italy's usually wary critics. Wrote Leonardo Borgese in the respected Corriere della Sera: "Buttini is no fake. If he has any fault, it is that of being too good." Last week, with 114 of his pen & ink drawings on show at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, U.S. gallerygoers could understand the enthusiasm...
...courage, self-confidence and unshakable belief in his Bible-would not some of these problems tend to simplify themselves? Would not we, after having done our very best with them, be content to leave the rest with the Almighty, and not to charge all our fellow men with the fault of bringing us where we were and are? I think it is possible that a contemplation, a study, a belief in those simple virtues would help us mightily...
...shudder to think of what the next seven years will have to offer . . . We cannot put the blame on transatlantic enthusiasm: enthusiasm is a good thing anywhere, and if the American can talk the hind legs off an English donkey, it is the donkey's fault. The trouble, we think, is not that Columbus went too far . . . On the contrary, it is that we permit this influence, however well-intentioned, to encroach too much upon the English preserve. It is a sad reflection on our initiative. If the solution is to abandon the leisurely mediocrity which is still...
...easternmost outpost of the free world and we are determined to defend this bastion. To achieve this we must rely upon the moral and material help of the free world . . . until we are again in possession of all the natural resources of our country. It is not our fault that we were robbed of them under the unfortunate Potsdam decisions...