Word: foolproofing
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...Russia's Andrei Vishinsky on his left. The delegates watched it with frank fascination. When he made his familiar, chopping gestures, the shadow appeared to be boxing Vishinsky's ears unmercifully, an illusion which was intensified by the President's words. His plea for a "foolproof" disarmament was obviously meant to offset Russia's phony peace talk...
...What works one place won't necessarily work elsewhere: "Foreign aid . .. is not some sort of patent remedy. It is not an independent and foolproof device, guaranteed to have universal validity and to produce certain calculable results ... To attempt to standardize its application would not be consistency-it would be applied fallacy...
...ground. We could carry it out every day and vault over it. One of us would be inside digging while the others vaulted. We'd have a good strong trap [door] and sink it at least a foot below the surface [of the ground]. It's foolproof...
What Lawyer Heyman Zimel of Paterson, N.J. wanted, to make a foolproof test case, were protests from 1) the parent of a schoolchild, and 2) a New Jersey taxpayer. Mrs. Henry O. Klein, ex-Roman Catholic and longtime Secularist, filled the bill for the parent: her 17-year-old daughter Gloria was a student at the Hawthorne High School. Donald R. Doremus, a mechanic of East Rutherford and director of the Secularists of New Jersey, was glad to protest as a taxpayer. With Lawyer Zimel, they filed their case before Superior Court Judge Robert H. Davidson...
...Andrewes concludes that "almost everyone has his own foolproof technique for preventing or curing colds, yet colds are as numerous and as troublesome as ever . . . Even the most eminent men of science almost invariably lose all sense of critical judgment where their own colds are concerned...