Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate's Agriculture Committee this week began to dig to the bottom of the food muddle (see INTERNATIONAL). It had a big job on its hands. In all of vast bureaucratic Washington, everyone could put a finger on someone to blame. All this seemed to boil down to one main fact: there was no top control of the U.S. food supply or its allocation...
Kesselring could play the role the Nazis may want him to play. He could surrender the bulk of the armies in the west, then plead that he had no control over Nazi-led fanatics. From their southern bastion, the Nazis could blame the final blowup on leading Army figures...
Partly to blame was the U.S. engineer who designed the water system, not dreaming that the city would grow from 332,000 to half a million in seven years. But Bogota boosters were not in a mood to boast. Only the local temperance leaguers felt like rejoicing: the flow of workingmen's chicha (corn beer) was also drying...
Some people would blame the relative artistic failure of Kelly's later plays (Mag gie the Magnificent, Philip Goes Forth, Reflected Glory) on his retreating too far from life. "I go out very little," he admits. And when he is working on a play, he is too preoccupied to enjoy being with people - "It's like having a sick child at home." He has written little in recent years be cause he has not been too well himself. But besides Mrs. Sykes he has written another play: a love story called Where the Heart...
Immediate results in El Salvador was a fierce outburst of anti-U.S. feeling. President Franklin Roosevelt was booed in movie theaters. Salvadoran democratic leaders tried to hush the hullabaloo, were inclined to blame not the U.S., but the powerful United Fruit Co. They suspected that United Fruit opposed the spread of democracy for fear of increased taxes and stricter labor laws...