Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toughest problem is sloughing off exorbitant requests without damaging the reputation of Santa Claus. "You can't ever let yourself promise anything; you blame it on shortage of materials, of transportation delays. In a pinch you rely on a hearty guffaw to give you time to think...
Nixon also criticized the Department of Justice: "[It] has been almost frantically trying to find the method of placing the blame for having these documents in his possession on Mr. Chambers. This, of course, is not a debatable question at all. Mr. Chambers admits that he has them in his possession and is prepared to take the consequences whatever the consequences...
...Westbrook Pegler turned his pouchy eyes inward:-"If I have any bigotry in my juices, it is a rancid abhorrence of people who coldbloodedly set out to do unprovoked good to other people . . . Any person who has ever looked to me for good works has only himself to blame, for my motives always have been obviously retributive . . . and any good I may have wrought has been purely coincidental...
...equal (but separate) opportunities for Negroes. He hates monopoly journalism; the Gazette once bought the rival Democrat, but Heiskell soon got them divorced. He likes to tell fellow Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading them. His own editorials (which he reads aloud to make sure they can stand it) get read. All through the 1948 campaign, the Gazette dad-blamed the Dixiecrats, stuck with Truman, "advised" voters to do the same. Arkansas did, by a 60% vote...
...would be very simple to blame all the food difficulties on the impersonal gargantuanism of the central kitchen, but such a simplification is unwarranted. Even in the best House Dining Halls, the food is not good, though the students are not driven to complaints by its inadequacies. In addition, the University has sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars in the central kitchen and now cannot be expected blithely to abandon it as a poor idea. The quality of Dining Hall food in the five Houses attached to the central kitchen does not require poor meals. It may never rise...