Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good people of the South" who were to blame. "It is the owners of the mines and mills, the great plantations and newspapers who incite violence . . . They have had others do their dirty work." But "the workers and farmers and independent businessmen of the South are turning from the false leadership of those who have been styled 'Southern liberals'-they are turning from those who have preached the tolerance of intolerance, tolerance of segregation, tolerance of murderous Jim Crow. They are learning that such men are only slightly to the left of Hitler and Rankin...
...Communists, however, were too smart to take the blame for postponing the elections. They merely abstained from voting, with sly Jacques Duclos announcing: "We want no part of this thieves' quarrel...
...bogas are partly to blame for the river troubles. In 1937, they formed a union and loudly protested that their steamer captains did nothing "except eat chicken and pull the whistle cord." Within three years, they got shipowners to boost crew complements from 35 to 50, cut hours, raise wages, provide meals-and extras between meals...
...gloom seems unshakable," said one high official. "Loss of confidence in the government is almost absolute. Everyone feels that he is in the shadow of imminent disaster. In the prevailing pessimism, people bicker and blame, but find no way out. They run to the government for personal favors, but never with wholehearted support. This is our danger. If we can't recover morale, if we can't regain popular confidence, then the government is lost indeed...
...unwanted "extras." The extras include fog lights, seat covers, lap robes, special steering wheels, powder-puff holders, radios with rear-seat speakers and up to $350 worth of luggage to match the baggage compartment. General Motors and Ford promptly denied that they were adding unordered extras, passed the blame back to the dealers...