Word: foolproofing
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Slaughter of an old harridan, with half a dozen heirs as suspects, recounted by a specialist who prefers straightforward, foolproof solution to thrilling situations, novel characterization...
...hangman's technique, Phil Hanna was called to do the job for nothing. Some 50 years ago Hanna was shocked by the spectacle of a bungled hanging. Thereupon he took up hanging as a hobby, experimented with plow lines and straw dummies. When he perfected a foolproof method, he volunteered his services to any State that needed...
Since the Rhineland is German soil, the election might have seemed a setup, the issue foolproof. Yet last week Adolf Hitler was taking no chances...
Harry Cowles, Squash coach, says that if the device is foolproof the American Squash Association should look into it, since the decisions of the judges are often doubtful...
...Adventures, Harold Hales likes to tell his friends that he is the original of Arnold Bennett's The Card, known also as "Denry the Audacious," a brash young man who in two Bennett novels made his way by his wits. But beyond all this Harold Hales wanted some foolproof device to make Posterity remember him with respect. Forty years ago he found...