Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reporting on China, General George C. Marshall bluntly placed the blame for her failure to achieve unity...
...Protestant churches have themselves to blame. . . . Few Protestant ministers have brought this issue to their people. . . . They felt that it was such 'a little thing' to get excited about-first free textbooks, then free bus transportation, for parochial schools at public expense. They were blind to the strategy of the Roman Church in using these apparently insignificant matters as the thin edge of the wedge which would ultimately crack open the Constitution...
Laying much of the blame for the current food shortage at the feet of the Nazis, who during the occupation disrupted the nation's economy, Miss Von Lieben stated that the American occupation forces, as well as English, Russian and U.N. sources are contributing large quantities of foodstuffs to infertile, mountainous Austria...
...secret of my success," Roscoe Pound once wrote, "is my blame memory." As a boy in Lincoln, Neb. (he was the son of a local judge), he used to disrupt Sunday school classes by rattling off a chapter of the Bible after only one reading. After graduating from the University of Nebraska at 17, he studied and practiced law, found time to take a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska (there is a roscopoundia lichen...
Villain Found? Some railroad men laid the blame to lack of steel. Only 48,000 tons of steel a month, said they, were allocated for freight cars in 1946 under CPA's "voluntary set-aside" policy. It would take 180,000 tons to turn out the needed monthly minimum of 10,000 cars. The automakers, they cried, were getting far more than their share of steel, while railroads were getting the same percentage (9%) that they got during the war. Snapped Railway Age: "Of all the tremendous tonnage of steel freed for civilian use when war production ceased...