Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harriman attributed this loss to the declining interest shown in the Testament since the war. He pointed out that this lack of interest in a House yearbook had resulted in a decline in the Testament's literary and photographic quality...
Redheaded Use, also known as the Bitch of Buchenwald, whose life sentence for participating in the management of the concentration camp had been reduced to four years "for lack of evidence" by a U.S. Army board of review (TIME, Oct. 4, 1948), had reached the end of her prison term at Landsberg. She had, it seemed, managed to keep busy during her stay in stir. She declined to discuss the bastard child to whom she gave birth two years ago in prison, but showing off her fairly fluent English, she told reporters that she had been writing her memoirs...
...Lack of backfield speed. What holes in the line there were usually waned by the time the back arrived at the line of scrimmage. In this respect, it was like the Columbia game...
...Inexperience. Neither Duke Sedgwick nor Will Davis had over played guard before in a game, and Davis had never even scrimmaged at running guard. When injured Howie Houston came in to take over at left guard, he was hampered by a lack of speed and timing...
Professor Skinner gets his birds, or "organisms" as he calls them, from a local pigeon-breeding farm. He admits pigeons are "notoriously dumb creatures," but admires their steadiness of intellect, or lack of it. The farm gives him surplus white homing-pigeons. They are too easy prey for hawks, but make excellent material for the battle of the button...