Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...progress as a threat of political domination by a small clique of "Tory Rowers,' a few shrewd politicians were able to sterilize a ringing indictment of the present school system. This indictment, in the form of the comprehensive report by eight professors and seven school superintendents, placed the blame for 'Cambridge's thirty-year-old rut" squarely on Superintendent Tobin. It called for his removal and the reorganization of a fumbling, politically dominated administration. Mr. Tobin sputtered magnificently, but could not refute the charges against him. In desperation, be wondered what were the educational qualifications of the men that made...
...this Leslie Roberts you mention in the Oct. 27 issue thinks he reflects the opinion of Canadians as a whole, then I say he is ... crazy. . . . The idea of blaming the U.S. for Canada's dollar shortage is ridiculous. The Ottawa Government is to blame more than anyone or anything else. Was it not they who restored the Canadian dollar to par? Did they not minimize the importance of Canada's gold-mining industry...
...reimposition of rationing and price control, which Harry Truman recently described as manifestations of a police state. But in their extremity that was exactly what Democratic politicos were suggesting. The tactic was politically sound: put the measure up to the 80th Congress and let the G.O.P. take the blame if prices kept on spiraling. The Democrats knew that Republicans would not vote to reimpose controls...
...want. And this fisherman has found [that] the abundant fishing is in the troubled waters of adolescence and all its concomitants-violence for the sake of violence . . . physical action for the sake of action . . . glamor that is not beauty, sex with a snicker. . . . Don't blame Hollywood for all this: blame yourselves...
...because he wanted to get as much as he could for it. One way to get farmers to sell, he said, was for the Government to peg the price of wheat at about $3.50 a bushel, some 50? above the current price. The President said he didn't blame Campbell for holding on to his wheat...