Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dutch were reluctant to admit that native unrest has been stirring for years. Some Hollanders were inclined to blame it all on the Japs. Said Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, The Netherlands' wartime Premier in Exile: "We are in danger of losing the war." Others blamed it all on a Jap puppet. Said an Amsterdam cigar-store proprietor last week: "This fellow Soekarno is just a crook and a collaborator who is certainly going to turn Communist within the next five years. We have killed our own quisling Mussert in Holland-we ought to shoot Soekarho...
...public crusades or reform waves, concentrates on first getting all the facts, then making helpful suggestions. Says Chairman Stoll's brilliant right-hand man, Lawyer Charles E. Keller: "We avoid all politics. However, we will criticize conditions, or a bad system-or public apathy, if it is to blame. . . . But we never criticize a public official except to his face...
...other words," said Jackson, "unless management agrees to everything Mr. Murray demands, then management will be to blame for the strikes which Mr. Murray will call...
...boom-or-bust economy on the U.S. side of the Atlantic. They cite the end of price controls and the near-disastrous coal strike as examples of U.S. irresponsibility. This resentment is aggravated by what the British see as a U.S. effort to put on them all the blame for policies which seek a joint U.S.-British objective...
Newest theory: blame radioactivity. Many rocks are slightly radioactive, shooting thin trickles of gamma rays through themselves and their surrounding formations. When continued long enough (say, a million years), the cumulative effect is considerable...