Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First flaw came with the storming of areas where hard cores of prepared Russian resistance ruled out tanks as a major offensive weapon. Odessa fell only after a fierce, brutal fight; Leningrad, encircled, has withstood over four months of siege; Moscow threw back three gigantic offensives...
...flaw, though, is the painfully self-conscious use of racy slang. Some of the players, notably Miss Stanwyck, mouth it so unfeelingly that at times it falls completely flat...
...Since a flaw like this seriously narrows the scope of the new program, an investigation of how it might be solved seems in order. Drawing on the regular scholarship fund, which seems the most obvious solution, would doubtless prove to be unsatisfactory, since these funds are already inadequate. Of the four hundred and fifty upper-classmen on the Dean's List who last year applied for scholarship aid, one hundred and fifty were turned down. Further demands would simply make it harder for everyone...
...Maybrick took his small, lovely bride to Liverpool, to live at Battlecrease, the Maybrick family home in suburban Aigburth, remote from the gaslit streets and noisy docks of the port. Florrie entered vivaciously into Aigburth's fashionable life. Only apparent flaw in her happiness was the antagonism her husband's brothers showed her. She bore two children. It looked like a happy marriage. But in those days all marriages were trademarked "Heaven." James Maybrick turned into a hypochondriac, morbidly dosed himself with drugs. Worse, Florrie suspected that he was unfaithful. She herself found a lover, went to meet...
...Only flaw: There was not a drop of liquor...