Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They did not blame the administration for its previous inactivity, since the American people believed in the "protective power of the seas" and "had a rather vague conviction that somehow or other the kind of wickedness we have been observing would not long prevail...
...seven o'clock Mass." Mexico's famed, shovel-mouthed comic, Cantinflas, built a skit around a gun-toting politico trading his pistol in for a rosary, added "They're buying holy water instead of tequila now." As with Spain, Catholic liberals have been disinclined to blame all Catholicism's trouble in Mexico on leftist politicians. For more than 300 years after Cortes conquered Mexico, the Church had enormous wealth and influence, did not always use them spiritually. In his 1937 encyclical to Mexico Pope Pius XI put his finger on one trouble when he wrote that...
...Christian Century argued that while interested groups, some predatory, always unite behind a leader, there is no threat of fascism if after two terms the leader automatically goes. The Christian Century attached no blame to President Roosevelt for the events and his leadership that poured enormous political power into his hands-the Roosevelt landslides, the relief measures which willy-nilly became political forces, the social reforms which were "not only legitimate but necessary" -but "if Mr. Roosevelt breaks through the third term barrier, he will break through the only inhibition which our system of government recognizes as a check against...
Stomach Ulcers. An ulcer is a sore on the stomach wall, always accompanied by an excessive flow of hydrochloric acid. To the question "Why ulcers?" Dr. Benmosché frankly answers: "We don't know." Most doctors blame alcohol, cigarets and nerves...
...inhumanity and injustice by establishing a basic principle of "a love which fixes the centre of [man's] life infinitely above the world and temporal history." But in the last 400 years philosophers have dropped their eyes from God, fixed them on man. Three influences are largely to blame...