Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps to the board's surprise, the public seemed to find it as much to blame as the unions. Said the New York Daily News: "If the present management can't make a go of the Met we won't coax them to stay . . . if the Met show is to go on, let's bring in some real pros to manage...
...usual everybody wanted a scapegoat -the villain who was to blame for inflation. Leaders of both parties were more interested in nailing down the blame for high prices than in deciding what to do about them. But inflation's effects could not be concealed by any amount of campaign oratory...
...ambiguous or confusing. Is it any part of Author Greene's purpose that readers should misconstrue the nature of Scobie's sinfulness-misconstrue it, in some cases, all the way to sainthood? Obviously not. But if an author is widely misunderstood, the reader is not usually to blame...
Quarterback Truman could-and would -take credit for whatever Congress accomplished, would try hard to blame the Republicans for anything Congress failed...
...trial, Orbay's father, Chief of Staff Kiazim Orbay, resigned. Ankara's public prosecutor also resigned. At the new trial the eyewitnesses were finally allowed to appear, and unanimously identified Hashmet Orbay as the murderer. Merdjan admitted that he had been persuaded to take the blame, on the promise that highly placed friends of his friend Orbay would get him off lightly. Sole witness in Orbay's defense was shapely, blonde Musherref Ishikman, his "fiancee," who testified that Hashmet had been visiting her at her house at the hour of the crime. The court merely concluded that...