Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British morale is high, and it is a fighting morale. Britons do not blame the U.S. for not being in the war (though many Britons would like to see the U.S. in). How long British morale can be maintained without more effective U.S. aid is a question even Britons cannot answer. But they believe they must go on fighting, and there is no thought of giving...
Science defends itself. Like the New York Daily News's Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor, thoughtful folk often brood on science's responsibility for the ruin and slaughter of technological warfare. Blame cannot be fixed. As Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan has pointed out, "Explosives and fertilizers are basically the same." Like Tartaglia, who founded the science of ballistics in the 16th Century, scientists in Britain and the U.S. may sometime feel their work on instruments of death to be "a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and man." But Tartaglia consoled himself with...
...cantonments completed or nearly so, a new Armored Force (two divisions) now doubling, and soon to triple, many & many another example of conquered difficulties, great accomplishment. Against the physical, visible facts of that record, the sum total of delays and mistakes seems picayune. Army men need not blame themselves when they accept Secretary Stimson's estimate that they are at least a year from readiness for modern...
...sure you don't like me any more -and I don't blame you. But I am equally sure that you know in your heart . . . that in whatever you might ask me to do, I would serve you faithfully and loyally...
...when Circulation Manager Samuel Oliver Shapiro (rehired three months ago; he was circulation manager from 1934 to 1938) sent newsstand distributors a letter asking them "to come clean"-to tell just how many copies of True Story they had sold. He added that the new management was not to blame, wanted to clean up the mess...