Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh. Next day, the State Department wheeled up its mimeographs to reply to the Dewey charge. The flaw it found in Dewey's case was that the Rumanian surrender terms were a military armistice, not a treaty; the U.S. had been consulted at all stages...
...million-volt tube shows up a flaw only .01 inch thick as a clear shadow, even through 16 inches of steel. In penetrating thick steel, the tube is more effective in one hour's exposure than a one-million-volt tube would be in a week, or a half-million-volt tube in an exposure of 500 years...
...main flaw in the production occurs in the opening scene when milkmaids, villagers, peers, and archers stumble around the crowded stage without rhyme nor reason. However, as soon as the action shifts to Sherwood Forest, "Robin Hood" develops into a delightful blending of songs and smiles...
Walter Lippmann shrewdly pointed out one basic flaw in Taft's reasoning: that other nations may actually refuse to accept the direct U.S. loans which are Taft's alternative to the Fund-Bank proposals...
...Nation Could Feel Safe. . . ." The greatest flaw in Professor Oberth's gyro-steered product is its inaccuracy. Inventor Hammond dismisses current buzz-bombing as a form of "making faces, beating drums and throwing stink bombs." But Hammond, himself the inventor of a radio-controlled glider bomb, predicts that with radio devices steering the projectile from several different points to correct each other's errors, the robot bomb will become "quite dangerous." Experiments have shown, says he, that it is very difficult to interfere with radio control of a projectile; radio interference may even attract the missile...