Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only physical flaw is a technicality: a slow heart that beats 55 instead of the normal 75 times a minute. This kept him out of World War I when he tried to enlist-until his pastor had him ordained so that he could take a chaplain's commission. Political opponents have tried without success to smear him as a draft dodger. Otherwise the slow heart bothers no one but doctors feeling the Bricker pulse for the first time...
...celebrated and great city, very rich and respected, very wise and strong, [where the people] lived in fine palaces, some made of pure jade, some of silver, and some of emeralds without flaw...
After a life of only three weeks, the gasoline rationing plan has revealed one flaw which would wreck the whole program even if the number of consumers holding unlimited privileges were cut to the absolute minimum. The very existence of X-cards, regardless of the number of them actually issued, has made gypping so easy that there is no way of detecting...
...doing vital defense or special research jobs, and with the number of graduate students greatly depleted, many older professors have more free time than usual. Certainly no temperamental reasons, no fondness for lecture desks should come before the tutorial system in this emergency. Perhaps the most glaring flaw in the tutorial teaching program is that it does not count for advancement, and is regarded chiefly as a chore that young instructors have to endure. Tutoring, in fact, has been the very essence of university teaching from the days of Abelard...
...newcomers in India see Sikhs in tanks and pursuit planes, Gurkhas driving armored cars. But any soldier with General Brereton's penetrating eye is bound to spot a flaw. Due partly to circumstances, including the necessary drain on Indian manpower and equipment for other theaters, the Indian Army as a whole is not a modern army. The British began woefully late in the game to modernize their Indian troops. In spirit, the Indian Army today is still an army of lances and banners rather than tanks. Its British officer caste is little changed, and the Indian officers now being...