Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mass may, indeed, be "mysterious" to Protestants, but if it is "mumble-jumble and "mysterious" to Catholics they have only themselves to blame. Priests from pulpits and Sisters in classrooms have talked themselves hoarse in an effort to induce these "many Catholics" and their children to use the Mass Missal...
...avoided the temptation to criticize the Democratic Administration by hindsight. With rare restraint, he made no attempt to fix the blame for past mistakes. "Those things are done," said Dewey. "The question is what lies ahead...
Only one group-64% of the private-school graduates-felt satisfied with the sex education they had received before coming to Colgate. (Walker was undecided whether to credit this attitude to better sex education in private schools-or blame it on "youthful naiveté.") Two older, sadder and presumably wiser groups-married men (100%) and ex-G.I.s (83%) -reported that they had not known enough answers to "meet [their] needs...
Lenin invented that kind of Communism, although Ruth Fischer prefers to blame it on Lenin's heir, Stalin...
...Tartar in the national household. "We should understand," he cried in a broadcast to the people, "that in addition to the treacherous rebels who are rampant today, speculation, manipulation and high living to the point of lasciviousness on the part of social parasites in our midst are also to blame for our crisis ... It is my intention to wash away these social dregs by opening the floodgates of public conscience and social justice...