Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently, however, sporting goods and radios are not selling as well as before. "We can't blame it on economics, though," said one athletic gear salesman. "It's the weather. Here it's been so warm this month that nobody wants to stay inside and play squash. So they don't buy rackets." The same feeling was expressed in a radio shop. "On a sunny October afternoon the boys stay outdoors. They don't listen to radios. They don't buy any radios either...
Chronic copper poisoning was blamed by Dr. Mallory for causing wide varieties of heart, liver, and kidney trouble and even diabetes. By his discoveries in this field, he acquitted brews from the blame of causing certain diseases for which the copper in kettles and percolators are actually to blame...
...elastic used-car allowances, rebates, finance charges, etc., dealers have always helped set retail prices in fact. But now Chrysler dealers will get the whole job. Thus they will have a chance to recoup possible losses from having fewer cars to sell, and they will bear the onus of blame for higher prices...
...Scout who goes ahead, trial balloon in hand, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion, whipping up sentiment pro or con whatever the President has decided the U.S. should be for or against. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the New Deal's Janitor, who cleans out the goboons and sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He captains the Purity Squad that keeps his colleagues honest. He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket...
...accident rate rises in suburban U.S. communities this fall because citizens are hit by flying sticks, insurance companies can blame a game called Kangaroo Golf. Invented and patented by internationally famed Composer-Organist Pietro Yon, virtuoso at Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, it has the same object as golf and can be set up in any good-sized yard...