Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus a confederation is forever the creature, never the master of its members. It amounts to little more than an intricately formulated war-&-peace alliance. Its fatal flaw is that its strength is entirely borrowed-and on a demand note at that-from the nations that compose it. Either it acts as a vigilante committee for its strong members or, as in the case of the League, it does...
Where Is the Flaw? The picture was further brightened by the signing last week of a trade treaty with Chile which took a long step toward the establishment of a customs union between the two countries. Pint-sized but patrician Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernandez himself signed the treaty in the course of a gala visit to Buenos Aires, during which relations strained by Chile's abandonment of neutrality seven months ago were cemented...
...there was a flaw in this picture, it was hard to see it from Buenos Aires. Shops were full of goods rationed in other countries; streets were thronged with cars despite gasoline rationing and a rubber shortage; there were 2,000,000 tons of wheat to burn as fuel and full granaries in prospect for the end of the harvest season...
...altimeter to speedometer, his brain racing through the arithmetic of destruction and the arithmetic of conservation . . . and with all his reflexes working at once, thrusting past, around, and through each other, like the notes of some terrible symphony . . . that he must conduct . . . with utter flawlessness, knowing well that one flaw will kill him." Square in the Belly . Now he had reached the tremendous climax. Suddenly "the whole setup swam sluggishly into focus" and through the water, "like a pencil stripe," ran the torpedo's wake and Swede was away, whipping, ducking, sashaying out of range of the angry guns...
Perhaps the most convincing flaw in the fantasy of the Chicago style's existence today, is the wide discrepancy in the styles of the Chicagoans. Contrast, for example, Pee-wee Russell and Mezz Mesirow, who is in partial retirement from his music, the "dirty" clarinet and the pure, reminiscent of New Orleans...