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...Many hospitals are very old-some go back to the 1860s. Others are poorly designed. Worst fault: lack of outdoor exercise yards...
...anything is likely to attract his punditry. He sums up the problem of teen age delinquency thus: "I don't blame the men in service at all these young girls are up town to get picked up they get picked up alright that is their fault. . . . I can't understand what is the matter with some of the parents some of these sixteen year old girls up town and out in the country all night. Maybe I am a little punchy and old fashioned but the old time parents they would knock your ears off if you wasn...
...other words, phrases, sentences, bitter, taunting, contemptuous words which stung the majority leader like slaps in the face: "unwise," "inept," "indefensible special privileges to favored groups," "dangerous precedents for the future," "disappoint and fail the American taxpayers." Taxpayers' confusion, asserted the President, was not the Treasury's fault but "squarely the fault of the Congress of the United States...
...Moscow came a cold, hard blast like a winter wind across the steppes. Said Moscow to the Poles: 1) the Poles have rejected the Curzon Line; 2) the Poles forget that they have no diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R., hence cannot negotiate; 3) the lack of relations is the fault of the Poles who joined the Germans in an anti-Soviet slander about the murder of Polish officers in Katyn Forest (TIME, April 26); 4) the present Polish Government clearly does not want to establish good relations with Russia. In effect, said Moscow to the U.S. and Great Britain: stay...
...that disqualifies George Santayana as the philosopher and teacher of the Americas and Spain is his inability to make the U.S. take him in earnest. The fault is less his own than it is another illustration of the unerring U.S. instinct for overlooking...