Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentina's President Juan Perón, were placed strategically on the walls; new Louis XV furniture was installed in her bedroom. A new floor of shining tile was laid for the main entrance, doors were painted garish green, marble stairs were shined mirror-bright. No one could blame Embassy officials when their bright new decorations became the background for the first jeers that Evita had heard since her European tour began June...
...keep the synthetic industry going. All this is a far cry from 1925, when Britain's "Stevenson plan" to restrict rubber production ran up prices to more than $1 a lb. Recalling those days, a Malayan planter last week wrote to the Singapore Straits Times: "One can hardly blame the Americans if they decline to allow that sort of thing to happen twice...
...Delhi's Untouchable colony sat the Mahatma, cross-legged on a white cushion, a cooling wet white kerchief covering his bald head. Overhead glimmered a lone 80-watt electric bulb. Reluctantly he assented to the splitting of India. "What is past is past," he mourned. "I cannot blame the Viceroy for what has happened. It was an act of Congress and the League...
...inevitable. 37. Meanwhile, at Lake Success, Gromyko used the veto to kill Britain's attempt to fix blame on Albania...
...TIME, March 24) took the old boy for a fall. Hmmed the Daily Graphic: "New York has been convulsed for seven years. . . . Why?" The Daily Telegraph found it "all very pleasant in an elementary way [but] not as good as all that." The News Chronicle was inclined to blame the slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering in mid-Atlantic." Perhaps the Daily Express meant to be kinder: "A piece that you [should] . . . see whenever something in the news makes you ponder that pregnant...