Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upper chamber of the Japanese Diet. He says angrily: "There are many eta people who have risen to top ranks in their professions, including screen stars and flower-arranging masters, but they dare not be frank about their origin because their popularity would immediately drop. But before we blame them, we must blame Japan's society, which permits such discrimination...
Sour Opinion. Most observers blame the new Tory electoral setbacks on inflation and the unpopular Rent Law. Hailsham, taking office last week, characteristically issued a more sweeping pronouncement: "I believe that public opinion in Britain has never been so sour; the people have lost confidence in democratic life." Old-regimental tie (the Rifle Brigade) awry, he tossed in a few reassurances that he would be "a member of the team" and "a listening post...
Except for a few fringe elements, the people of Little Rock want nothing more than peace and order. Many people point to the peace which existed before the race issue arose and put the blame for the current situation on Negroes and Northern "agitators." A smaller number of people feel that Arkansas authorities failed to pass a very simple test--the integration of nine Negroes into a school of two thousand...
...Herald Tribune's unknown quantity, to many staffers, is still Publisher Reid, a portentously high-minded young man who sincerely believes that "the Trib is one of the world's most important papers"-yet must take the blame for much in the recent oast that has made it merely trivial. Even last week, as Tribmen spoke earnestly of their plans for a better paper, radio commercials and full-page ads for a new circulation-boosting Tangle Towns contest struck a dissonant note. Nevertheless, the decision to refinance and remold the Herald Tribune argued powerfully that young Brownie Reid...
...outspoken critic of the kind of exploitative industrialization that Westerners blame for dotting their country with mining and timber ghost towns, Simpson is at the same time a tireless exponent of responsible economic development. In his administration Wyoming, already friendly toward new investment, made the welcome well-nigh irresistible. Against a tendency of other Rocky Mountain states to "make industry pay" by levying special taxes, e.g., a severance tax on minerals taken out of the ground and shipped away, Wyoming hewed to an exceptionally favorable tax policy supported by Democrats as well as Republicans. Not only is there no severance...