Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower's Republican Congress passed the Submerged Lands Act that awarded the oil-rich "tidelands" off U.S. shores to the states instead of the Federal Government-just as Ike had promised to do in his campaign. But the law had a basic flaw. It set a three-mile limit for Atlantic and Pacific states, yet allowed the states on the Gulf of Mexico-which has most of the under water oil-to claim up to three leagues (10.3 miles) of offshore land, provided that those boundaries existed "at the time such State became a member...
...tall, shambling French aristocrat was a good pilot, in Migeo's estimation, but not a great one, despite great skill and daring. Saint-Ex's grievous flaw, one that involved him in a dozen crashes and near-crashes, was his absentmindedness. He flew for release, if not escape, and once released, his thoughts did not linger on altimeter or compass. His magnificent Flight to Arras is as much a meditation as it is the log of a dangerous reconnaissance mission into German-occupied French territory. With German fighters closing in, the aviator muses for paragraphs about the country...
...later called a "premature antifascist'' and enemies on the left as an early antiCommunist. In his book The Nature and Destiny of Man, he spelled out his paradoxical view of man's need to plan and struggle toward ends which his built-in sin will inevitably flaw...
...most profound engineering problems that have confronted our company in three decades of airplane building." As McBrearty ex plained it, the two Electras were brought down by a combination of factors, none of which would have been enough to wreck the planes by itself. The basic flaw was that the support structure of the wing nacelles, holding the plane's turbo prop engines, was not built sturdily enough. When damaged or weakened by such a common occurrence as a rough landing, the struts beneath the four engines no longer held the engine nacelle tightly enough in place. Said McBrearty...
Characters in several Snow novels die from other causes and suffer from other afflictions; several commit suicide or go mad, struck down by some unexplained flaw of character or of fate. The scientific promise of food and health has obviously not been able to save them, and Snow evades that dilemma. The poor boy who found his way through the corridors of power still finds it more pertinent to insist, with old-fashioned and unabashed optimism, that "industrialisation is the only hope of the poor...