Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson handed Jeffers to let him bull through 55% of the synthetic rubber program had cost the Navy 100 escort vessels. It had further jammed the production of valves and other parts essential to the Navy as well as to 100-octane and Navy programs. Jeffers was not to blame; Nelson never should have granted the priority in the first place...
...cause of typhoid fever's spread among Spanish-American war troops. In that war 86.24% of the deaths were from typhoid; if the same disease rate had prevailed in World War I, half a million men would have had typhoid. Camp pollution, more than drinking water, was to blame. Camp sanitation was reformed and, more important, the Army tried out a vaccine developed in Britain (see cut, p. 75) and made vaccination compulsory. Only 1,572 World War I soldiers had typhoid...
...Labor Board, like every other major agency designed to deal with labor disputes, has thrown up its hands and passed the buck, this time to the President. The buck could go no further. The President has acted, fighting back with a vague threat of force. How much of the blame can be thrown on political ham Lewis and how much on the mine operators and the government...
...productions, this one is essentially a serious play about individual ideological dilemmas. Those represented here are complex and not very clearly dramatized, and are apt to leave audiences dangling. For this fault, neither Writer Dudley Nichols (scripter of The Informer) nor Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion) is entirely to blame: they bit off more than they could chew...
...Students may be dumb-some of them are. But what seems to be dumbness may be something else. If your instructions were not clear to the student, he is not to blame for doing something the 'dumb' way. Again, you can't expect him to remember a hundred things if he has heard each of them just once. Many a student will act much brighter if told fewer things and exposed to these more often...