Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier's mother was to blame," remarked Billy. "She didn't allow him to be independent." A boy named Caleb thought the G.I. had deserted too soon: "If it had come to a showdown, the soldier might have shown more courage than he thought he had." John guessed: "Fear isn't always bad. Sometimes it's good. It makes you more alert...
Paradoxically, then, a waiting list still exists, while nearly 100 units at Harvardevens and 25 suites at the Brunswick remain vacant. The University has attempted to do its part leaving, perhaps, part of the blame on the shoulders of students themselves, who are shopping around for something better, hoping that the Housing office will find it for them. But more exactly, the blame may rest in the fact that a depreciated 90 per month goes only a certain, short distance in an inflationary postwar United States...
Last week, commenting on the Congressional elections, Professor Seymour E. Harris, reflecting the opinion of economic authorities throughout the country, predicted a "depression within two to four years," to come during a Republican administration. By no means could the blame for such a catastrophe be laid on a single party or any small group in Washington. But the series of proposals announced by Republican Congressional leaders would, if put into action, put the country in a position similar to the free-for-all economic anarchy that saw its inglorious...
...blame? The conferees thought they knew the answer. Said Cleveland's Rev. Dores R. Sharpe, Baptist minister, ardent crusader for reform: "John Doe, private citizen, is the real culprit in this shame of democracy...
This time there was no bigtime speculator to blame, like New Orleans' Tom Jordan (TIME, Oct. 28). (Tom Jordan, who lost heavily in cotton, put his New York Stock Exchange seat on the block.) But the cotton market was still full of little Tom Jordans. While ceilings were slapped on other major commodities and trading in the stockmarket was put on a cash basis, cotton had been free as a breeze. It could be bought on approximately a 10% margin; it was the speculator's delight...