Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that brought in two other airliners safely that night under the same conditions. But somehow he had run out of altitude. Whether it was because of mechanical trouble or by his own misjudgment, no one could say until the wreckage had been examined, analyzed. Nor could anyone, with justice, blame the crash on CAB until the remains had been studied...
...President emphasized that he placed no blame. Least of all did he blame reporters. Any reporter worth his salt, said he, naturally does his best to get the story, secret or not. The truly interesting problem, he said, revolved around the ethics of the publishers who printed such secret testimony-though he placed no blame on them either, recognizing that their job also was to print all the news they could...
Eating. Everybody knows the timid, sluggish, clumsy, socially maladjusted type of fat child. Usually glandular disturbances have taken the blame. But Dr. Hilde Bruch of New York thinks that mollycoddling mothers are often the answer-mothers who forbid their children normal exercise and play for fear they will get hurt, who baby them beyond their needs and age. Such children do little, eat a lot because they have little else to do-a double promoter of obesity...
Beyond this miserable handling of an emergency, what stunned CAB men most was that none of the four men in the monitor stations knew what the beam was about, none had any idea of the urgency of reporting bad operation. For this, CAB, inferentially, took the blame. It had given each a book to read about radio ranges. All they had to do was initial it, to signify they understood...
...whole nation--pulpit and all--will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his month; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statement will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." George Holden Tinkham...