Word: remiss
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...took direct exception to the majority's conclusions: 1) that the Japanese were not tricked or provoked into the attack; 2) that Army & Navy commands in Hawaii (headed by Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter Short) were remiss in failing "to effect a state of readiness"; 3) that the Army War Plans Division under Lieut (then Brigadier) General Leonard T. Gerow was lax in failing to prod General Short into greater readiness...
...planned the most elaborate ball of the season. But the Major was a crude fellow in the eyes of his neighbors and, when the night of the ball arrived, the Four Hundred cut him dead. Furious at the insult to his wife, the Major proceeded to ruin the remiss millionaires, one by one. When Susie discovered that one of them had resorted to suicide, she not only determined to halt her husband's vengeful program but succeeded, thanks to some pretty shrewd manipulation of the stockmarket...
...served only to trip Purdue President Elliott's committee into the bog of bureaucratic compromise, for the report just presented to the War Manpower Commission only repeats last year's worn generalities with a promise of better things to come. Designed to hurt no feelings, the report is remiss largely in what it omits. Even as a sketchy outline for more specific blueprints, McNutt's ten point program fails to strike at most of the basic evils in the current college muddle...
...case of the Illustrious is not isolated. Typical is such a report as the following which was received last week from a TIME correspondent in a city where there is a U.S. Navy Yard-the sort of town where the Axis secret service is extremely remiss if it does not have more than one agent...
...Exceptions are the leftist Daily Herald and News Chronicle, whose working-class subscribers have been remiss in renewing from evacuee addresses...