Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hiding was his own idea, Paul Makushak said: he had just not liked the way the world was going. Certainly no one should blame his mother. The police, who get used to strange things, looked hard at the small hideaway and sniffed. They were not sure Makushak had been living there for a decade, but someone had been living there messily for a long time...
...greatest achievements was to teach Puerto Ricans the true value of the ballot. Against the then-common practice of vote-selling, Muñoz used an argument compounded of pity and scorn: "If you want to sell your vote for $2, all right. I don't blame you. I know $2 is worth something. But if you don't sell your vote, you can use it to get justice for your family. So remember: justice or $2. But you can't have both...
...month ago the American Chemical Society (meeting in smog-free San Francisco) heard the results of investigations carried out by the Stanford Research Institute and financed by the Western Oil & Gas Association. Said S.R.I.'s Paul L. Magill: elemental sulphur (i.e., not in compounds) might be to blame for eye irritation. So might some aldehydes. Another theory offered to the chemists: organic peroxides might be the tear-jerking villains. Dr. Lucien Dau-trebande, a Belgian smog expert, also working at S.R.I, with Oil & Gas funds, said that an eye irritant would be at least twice as irritating if suspended...
...Smith: "They weren't making any money. We just weren't interested in them any longer." Neither was the public. From a wartime high of 4,250,000, the circulation of the two groups had plummeted to 700,000 a month. Changing times and tastes were to blame, said S. & S.; radio, television and the newsstand competition of the 25? reprint books had shrunk the market...
...Dressing-up. "Just now, not a few of the reverends are at a loss to know how even to carry on the routine . . . They do not know that Christianity has no new message and that the Christian message is always a dangerous thing to impart. But one should not blame them for their sincere uncertainties. The message needs a new dressing-up, and this new dressing-up is in their own Christian living. They need a careful re-education...