Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame for the tardy news release. When it first heard last November of the Japanese atrocities to U.S. prisoners, it tried to break the story, and failed, as usual. The fact that it was late to learn and slow to free the news underlined its basic defect. Last week the $36.5 million current investment in the war of words was tongue-tied while its two top men squabbled...
...landed the Marines who seized Guadalcanal. Despite disastrous naval losses for which Turner must be held partly to blame, he was awarded the D.S.M. and the Navy Cross. He collapsed with malaria and dengue fever. Still grey with sickness, he set up headquarters on Guadalcanal preparatory to the New Georgia invasion. "Terrible" Turner's bridge was a jungle clearing marked by a wooden sign: "U.S.S. Crocodile-Flagship- Amphibious Forces South Pacific." Under the scorching tropic sun, amidst the quack of bena birds and the coo of kura kura pigeons, dressed in khaki pants and shirt, he taught...
...Veblen is also the father of the so-called "Institutional" economists who try to describe the workings of the economic system without imputing either praise or blame. Duffus argues that Veblen was less interested in fostering a revolution than he was in describing what went on around him. Duffus recalls how Veblen shocked him one evening by remarking that there was one thing to be said for capitalism, "It works...
...best that French intelligence was doing. Few of the actions were bad. Most of them were well-intentioned. It was not treachery, viciousness, wickedness, nor even laziness that stifled them. It was simply indecision, confusion, uncertainty, lack of friends, lack of leadership, and the willingness to blame others for the plight of France which resulted from more causes than any Frenchman knew...
...parents were a long time forgiving Francis and his older brother, Ralph, now a Hollywood heavy, for becoming actors. Mrs. Wuppermann thought the profession somewhat loose. Her husband was inclined to blame one of his ancestors, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, for the misstep...