Word: defections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defect and Correction. Dropping the veto power was a graceful bow by the U.S. to the wishes of other United Nations, which disliked U.S. control of world currencies. Upping of gold requirements was a hardfisted move to correct a defect in the original plan and safeguard the central fund against loss of its gold reserve...
...present method of collecting the income tax payment has the basic defect that tax payments are not synchronized with the receipt of the income on which the tax is based. ... A suitable pay-as-you-go method will be of great assistance to millions of persons." (Point One of the Ruml plan: get taxpayers on a current basis by letting them pay 1943 taxes while they are earning 1943's income...
When Davision opened last summer, the biggest single defect in the band was the lack of a trombone. There's no such lack now, with Sandy Williams, ex-Chick Webb and Coleman Hawkins. Sandy was troubled with a bad lip last Tuesday night, but that didn't prevent him from proving that he is one of the most unappreciated trombonists...
...Catholic Church does have a court of men - the Sacred Roman Rota at the Vatican - of whose yearly cases 85% concern marriage. Divorces are not granted; annulments sparingly given. Last year the Rota heard 87 cases, granted 29 annulments. Some grounds for annulment: defect of age, impotence, abduction, crime (adultery, homicide or both...
...civilian life. . . . [But] when the disappointment is much too severe for a man's strength to stand up under it, he may literally run away-go 'over the hill.' . . . More likely to occur is a sort of symbolic running away through feigned illness or physical defect...