Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, faced with a rebellious Indian press, this week had only to look to the past to see who was to blame. From Britain herself, Indian editors had learned to value press freedom and to fight...
Lewis, however, is saddled not only with the responsibility of winning the strike, but he is in no small measure to blame for the interruption in the anthracite fields. The miners have long been restive under the union chief's iron rule. The recent dues increase forced on union members was widely recognized as the storm signal that might herald an open break...
...years since the publication of their "Manifesto," the school of political economy founded by Karl Marx and Friedriech Engels has been more often damned than understood. In part, the attacks are the result of sheer intellectual laziness in refusing to read what the Marxists wrote, but some of the blame rests on Marx's followers themselves. Anyone interested in understanding what all the shouting is really about would be required to plow through an enormous list of incredibly difficult and abstruse tomes written in German or Russian. No systematic and coherent treatment of the subject and its development through...
...Whom to Blame. For the chaos everybody blamed everybody else. Homeowners scolded fuel-oil companies. Oil companies blamed divided authority in Washington for confusion in deliveries. Government officials blamed 1) slow rationing boards, 2) citizens' failure to turn in ration cards to the oil companies, 3) the draining of oil from other Eastern areas to New York...
...Army now discharges hundreds of mental cases a week. When a man has a mental crackup in battle, his local draft board may be to blame-chances are two to one that he showed signs of mental disease before he was inducted. Captain David J. Flicker of the Army Medical Corps estimates in War Medicine that draft boards oblivious to mental disease and overworked Army psychiatrists catch only 25% of future Army misfits...