Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were hailed as liberators who were bringing with us the blessings of democracy. On the whole we are now taken to be moral slobs, mental deficients, and fools; and if Europeans now seek to milk us, we have only "Our Boys" to blame. It will take years to repair the widespread distrust of the U.S. produced, not by bombs or diplomatic deals, but by our half-educated, doltish youth...
Order in the Court. As the testimony wore on, formality lent the proceedings the curious improbability of a bad horror play. But twice there were real and savage scenes. A Chinese woman, who had seen her baby bayoneted, stared at Yamashita from the stand, cried: "That Jap is to blame. He's got to be killed to pay for what he's done!" A slim Filipino girl halted her testimony, cried in a low, tense voice: "You still have the face to look at me, Yamashita. If I could only get near you. You ought...
...this pallid reaction the President was partly to blame. He had shown courage in delivering his message in person, braving the uneasy reception his advisers had urged him to avoid. Yet out of deference to Congressional sensibilities-or perhaps merely out of the traditional American preference for euphemism-he insisted that his plan for universal military training was not conscription...
...were still quivering from the effect of race prejudice in their midst (TIME, Oct. 8). While agitated parents and educators looked for causes and solutions, Local 555 of the (C.I.O. ) Teachers Union cited these words from Geoffrey Chaucer as the kind of thing that was at least partly to blame. On the rounds that such writings violated "the fundamental conceptions of Americanism," the Union demanded a ban in all new York schools of the famed Canterbury Tales...
...blame the General Staff because they, instead of always exhibiting iron will, have weakened the front officers, for when General Staff officers come to the front they spread pessimism...