Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress hadn't given him enough authority to knock heads together, Forrestal said. Congress had empowered him only to set "general policies and programs," and to exercise "general direction, authority and control." For that he had himself to blame. As Navy Secretary he shared the Navy's mortal fear of unification, joined the admirals in insisting on restriction of the Defense Secretary's authority. After 17 months as Defense Secretary, Jim Forrestal saw it all in a clearer light. He asked Congress to kick out the word "general" and let him really...
...there are signs of a letdown. In the Badger Tavern, an off-campus hangout, ex-G.I. Bob Miller remarked one night last week: "Some blame it on the talk about another war, some say we're just tired. Whatever it is, there seems to be more cutting of classes this year, more playing around, and less work." President Harold W. Stoke of Louisiana State University, who once taught at Wisconsin, returned there recently and observed: "If you take a freshman at college and give him a convertible and a textbook, you have an uneven contest...
Daddy In the Mines. Connolly's answer, which spreads the blame over a wide area, is written lightly, wittily, and with essential gloom. Mr. Shelleyblake's first novel is generated by a youthful vigor and freshness ; it stands out from the tired works of his older contemporaries. The publisher is pleased, and promptly asks Mr. Shelleyblake if he is at work on Opus 2. Mr. Shelleyblake is too shy, or too ambitious, or too much in need of money to admit that having just blown his top in Opus i he hasn't got enough steam...
Almost before catching his breath in Havana, Venezuela's exiled President Romulo Gallegos had begun dishing out the blame for his downfall (TIME, Dec. 13). His most sensational charge involved "the notorious presence" of a foreign military attache at a Caracas barracks during the army uprising...
...tree got trimmed, finally, but the taffy didn't pull. "We can always blame it on too many cooks," the participants explained. In addition to the dozen residents, ten guests, Mr. and Mrs. Peach, and their six-year-old daughter, Stephanie, all joined in the festivities...