Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many people cared. What did matter . . . was that it was fun to be in New York in Jimmy Walker's time. For the last few years, it has been no more fun to be in New York than anywhere else. The war has been partly to blame for that; but [so has] LaGuardia. . . . Jimmy Walker . . . would win in a walk, on the nostalgic vote...
...Alibi. The bankrupt Reich's receivers did their utmost to absolve the German people and the German military command of responsibility for the war and the defeat. Blame went impartially to: 1) the Nazi party, no longer to be confused with the German nation; 2) an "unfortunate" shortage of equipment. This inferiority, the propaganda suggested, was no reflection on the power and genius of German arms and could be corrected next time...
...fouled up the peace news? At bars where newsmen gather, pinning the blame will be a soul-searching pastime for years to come. But that miscarriage of news and the possibilities of similar miscarriages posed a bigger problem than the morals of the Associated Press's Ed-ward Kennedy, whose "scoop" went sour...
Newspapermen would long debate how much of the blame belonged to the A.P. The red-faced A.P. treasured one technical defense: it had not sent the Connally story out as a flash (as such news deserved, if the A.P. were unreservedly vouching for it) but only as a bulletin. And the bulletin carried a hedge, "announcement is expected momentarily," which did not justify the unqualified headlines...
...hotel lobby: "My dear, if this thing doesn't pick up pretty soon, it's going to be the dullest clambake ever held." They read Elsa Maxwell's astute comments on the Russians: "a bunch of magnificent he-men." They debated who was to blame-the officials who issued the credentials wholesale, or the newspapers that assigned the freaks...