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...relay isn't what's wrong, although that's what the figures seem to say," remarked Gordon. Just where the tragic flaw fell thrice, however, he refused to state, considering such information of tactical importance. Other channels, nevertheless, report of a very weak breast-stroking staff...
...very dangerous trick. Because of his daring the bulls have ripped his skintight pants in every fight so far, have often tossed him in the air though never gored him. (He thriftily rents his suits for $50 for each performance instead of buying them for $600.) His greatest flaw: he was not clean or quick enough at the kill...
...shot looked backwards. On one three-quarter-inch putt last week, he went through all the footwork and club-positioning that he used on a ten-footer. After a match, he usually retired to Maniac Hill (the practice range) to work on some minor flaw. Ben Hojan seemed to thrive on tension and hard work...
...racing, he has once been ruled off all tracks for a year for rough riding. This summer he decided to take life easier. He quit as contract rider for the famed Greentree Stable, now sleeps until 9 a.m. instead of rolling out at dawn to gallop horses. His only flaw as a jockey: he sometimes tries to ride cheap horses as if they were stakes horses, confidently holding them back for a spurt that isn't in them. His chief talent, according to one horseman: "He thinks twice before other jockeys begin to think...
...countries can best conciliate. Twenty years ago a spiritual failure of the League of Nations was the generally blithe assumption that the "spade would work by itself." The inability to understand that an assembly of states is only a tool which must be used by its members was the flaw that destroyed Wilson's dream...