Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote, like the ability to procreate, is too widespread now for the good of the country. There are already too many ignorant, misguided, impressionable, crackpot voters, as witness the representatives we choose to make our laws. One thing to our credit, however: we voters aren't to blame for foisting Chief Justice Warren on the country...
Concerning "Small Minds, Big Job" [July 22]: Don't blame the draft for Army "eight balls." The draft is the only source of intelligence the Army has. Most Army regulars will quickly admit that they stay in 'the Army because they couldn't make a living on the outside. The Air Force took the only administrative talent in the military and got out while the going was good. The army is just an eight-ball outfit...
...homes may, more or less inadvertently, "seduce" children into becoming sexual deviates. The two psychiatrists, who published their theory in the A.M.A. Journal: Dr. Adelaide M. Johnson, 52, professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. David B. Robinson, 33, of the Mayo Clinic. They put the blame for deviations squarely and almost exclusively on the parents-who in turn must have been warped by their own parents...
Until recently Canada managed to offset her perennial deficit in U.S. trade by selling wheat to the rest of the world, but this market tapered off last year, and Canadians blame U.S. international wheat giveaways and subsidized sales. Unless the problem of U.S. surplus-wheat disposal can be settled without injuring Canada, warns a Canadian official, it could threaten Canadian-U.S. relations even on defense matters. Canada and the U.S. must also work out joint policies for waterpower development of the international rivers of the Pacific Northwest, and Canada must decide whether its own long-term interests permit...
Rare was the company that did not at least increase its sales. And for those whose profits dipped, special conditions were often as much to blame as the inflationary cost squeeze. Union Carbide Corp. laid part of its 2% profit cut (to $34,147,267 for the quarter) to a 15-week strike in some of its oxygen-producing plants. Continental Can Co. said it had anticipated a 5% first-half earnings decline because of stockpile buying in anticipation of a steel strike and the early maturing of some crops. General Foods Corp. suffered a profit slump because...