Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made judge in a Shanghai court. He was lenient to a fault. One day he freed a coolie accused of having stolen four ducks because evidence was insufficient-and the next day found four ducks missing from his own duck pond...
...fault that we cannot find more of the British Fleet. . . . The German Air Force has been searching for large units of the British Fleet in and near the North Sea and east English ports, but no such units are to be found any longer...
This time the problem is different. And the difference is the fault of an ambitious little country where life is not abundant, Japan. Last week a European squeeze was on The Netherlands, and Japan was on the alert. At the most opportune and opportunistic moment, out came a spectacular jingoistic blast: Japan would like some of that Dutch abundance, and would brook no interference to her ambition to dominate the South Seas...
Wedding Bells. Only fault with this reasoning was that Son Carol refused to play. A year or so of training at Potsdam, a tutor in the person of Professor Nicholas Jorga, a dogged old National Democrat who was against virtually everything the Bratianus stood for-these put unexpected backbone into the young Prince. Mother Marie was too busy hatching plots to notice that Son Carol was developing a mind of his own. She had a first glimpse of Carol's stubbornness at the Court of the Tsar. She got a big dose of it when, in World...
...basic logical fault of the policy assumed as inescapable in Dean Ferguson's memorandum is that it undertakes to postulate present action on the basis of essentially unpredictable future events. Out of an apparent overweening fear of the future, it forges gratuitous shackles for the present...