Word: defections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman is no man to be taken in by adjectives. To Party workers, after he became the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, he said simply: "I am a work horse." The description was apt: it covered his principal virtues, which are industry and loyalty; and it covered his principal defect, which is a drab mediocrity...
Some other Calvert students: a trailer-housed family of professional rollerskaters; a child on a Montana Indian reservation; a Vermont spastic; an Oregon child with a speech defect; a missionary's child on the Congo-Nile watershed; an Alaskan reindeer rancher's child; the governess-taught child of a Newport socialite...
...blame for the tardy news release. When it first heard last November of the Japanese atrocities to U.S. prisoners, it tried to break the story, and failed, as usual. The fact that it was late to learn and slow to free the news underlined its basic defect. Last week the $36.5 million current investment in the war of words was tongue-tied while its two top men squabbled...
...navigators, the traditional magnetic compass has the defect of being too crude. Despite modern refinements, it is still essentially a magnetized needle kept pointed north by the earth's magnetic field. It must be corrected constantly by tricky calculations, because of 1) interfering magnetic fields from surrounding metallic objects, and 2) geographical variations in the earth's magnetic field, some of which result from the fact that the magnetic poles are not the earth's true poles...
Sirs: The farce . . .. at Selfridge Field should direct public attention to a fundamental defect in the system whereby army "justice" is administered. . . . Aside from the other charges against Colonel Colman, it is difficult to suppose that, were the parties to the as sault reversed, a court-martial would have punished an attack with a deadly Weapon by a colored soldier on a colonel with less than death or life imprisonment...