Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans-the kind who get around and know things-often glibly tell Indians that they have only themselves to blame for their misery and hunger: the chief trouble is, these Indians have too many children. Mohandas Gandhi disagrees. Although he and his wife practiced complete marital continence for 30 years before her death in 1944, he abhors contraception, has declared that it produces "nothing but harm." Last week, Gandhi's youngest son Devadas, hard-hitting editor of the Hindustan Times, made a far more eloquent defense of India's birth rate...
...fallen last week to the Reds. At a Chungking tea party the Generalissimo decided to postpone calling the National Assembly because the Communists refused to participate. Some of Chiang's advisers feared that time was now on the side of the Communists; because hungry, strife-torn China might blame the Government for failure to restore the peace the Reds had broken...
...rarely hires anyone who is out of a job. She tolerates no tomfoolery or inefficiency in horse trainers or jockeys either. She bubbles into the paddock before a race to tell her jockeys to "get out in front and go, go, go!" When she loses, she is apt to blame anyone but the horse...
Newspaper consensus agreed that the House had gone too far, that the sudden collapse of controls would usher in a period of violent and costly price fluctuations for hard-pressed consumers. But some placed at least part of the blame on OPA's reluctant retirement back to a free economy and its failure to wipe out inequities and obstacles to production...
This old sway-backed horse opera should have been put out to pasture long ago. Even saddled with Technicolor (about as subtle as a show card) and ridden by Old Hand Joel McCrea (about as expressive as lumber), The Virginian makes a bad run of it. Most to blame is the story; its gingham charm has worn thin. And as in most Westerns, acting and direction are as lifeless as a frontier cemetery. Even when the Virginian cracks his famed whip-line-"When you call me that, smile"-not Badman Trampas (the ubiquitous Brian Donlevy), but the audience complies...