Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nationalists and Communists might break. From the river last week, Todd could hear bugle calls and see the dust of marching columns as the Nationalists reinforced their Manchuria garrisons. He feared that one side or the other might attempt to blow up his dikes in order to pin the blame on the opposition. But if he won his race, millions would live to bless Oliver Todd as millions had blest old Emperor Yu, who tamed the Yellow River (temporarily) 4243 years ago, in China's Golden...
...simple resolution extending OPA without crippling change. The Solons obviously do not dare let OPA die completely; rent controls, for example, are not so much as touched in either House or Senate bill. The time for haggling is growing short, and a ringing Presidential veto message will throw the blame and the responsibility exactly where they belong-in the spacious laps of a captious Congress...
...once, don't blame Hollywood censorship. Cain's super-sexed passages were the weakest parts of his story, and their removal is not responsible for the animated skeleton that MGM, has produced. Rather it is the inexplicable changes that have been made in the structure of the novel, changes that confuse and obscure the basic thread of love, changes that transform a dynamic series of events into an almost comically catastrophic succession of messes...
...been so crowded. Owners' profits were up; hot-dog vendors sold more hot dogs; everybody seemed to be making more money but the ballplayers. Westbrook Pegler, no union lover, but once a baseball writer himself, was sympathetic to the players: "The owners will have some of themselves to blame. Not all, but enough of them, have been harsh and arrogant, mean in money matters and completely ruthless in imposing on the youth of great players such as Dizzy Dean who used himself up long before his time...
...have been operating between rigidly controlled prices and uncontrolled costs. The heavy wage increases have only partially seeped through to what we buy, but eventually they will be felt in full [see Autos]. It is convenient ... to blame our present situation upon Government price-fixing. . . . But let us scratch a little deeper...