Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal shortage, prime factor in most of Britain's troubles, was mostly to blame in December. Last week the Cabinet discussed employing displaced Poles already in Britain, to work the man-short mines...
Composer Douglas Moore,* director of Columbia University's music department, says that more U.S. music is worth a hearing, but is not getting it. In this week's Saturday Review of Literature he put the blame on the music industry's "scramble for the big money," in which "the old and the familiar" sell best...
...expected some selfcriticism, and they got it. It came from Harper's able Editor Frederick Lewis Allen, whose credentials include a quarter of a century with the best U.S. monthlies (Century, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's). At a Manhattan meeting of the National Publishers Association, he spread the blame three ways...
Even more to blame, he implied, were "the dyed-in-the-wool Communists." The General bluntly refuted the theory, often advanced by hopeful U.S. leftists, that China's Communists are simply agrarian reformists. Said he: "The Communists frankly state that they are Marxists and intend to work toward establishing a communistic form of government in China, though first advancing through the medium of a democratic form of government of the American or British type...
When many people find a window broken in their homes, or new cracks in walls or ceilings, the chances are that any blasting going on within a fifty mile radius will get the blame. Every year, thousands of irate householders file complaints against blasting companies claiming that the vibration and concussion from their operations has damaged their property...