Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education of the whole child." It espoused Pestalozzi's methods, e.g., using objects as well as books, John Dewey's "learning by doing," and the current doctrine that if Johnny isn't ready to read, don't force him. To its critics, it shares the blame for the fact that some Johnnies never seem to learn to read; its supporters give it credit for the fact that many more Johnnies can learn a useful trade in their local high school...
...send him to an institution. In some cases the clinics discover children whose seeming retardation stems from emotional problems rather than defective brains; these require entirely different treatment from the truly feebleminded. Parents are assured that so far as medicine knows, they are in no way to blame for the biological accident that produced a defective child...
...Laborites, cock-a-hoop with the victory, had won with 1) a more attractive candidate (capable Barrister Niall MacDermot), 2) a solid, close-to-the-pocketbook issue in a proposed Tory bill to relax rent controls, 3) a much better political machine. The Tories were inclined to blame most of their troubles on a third candidate, a Junoesque, right-wing independent named Leslie Greene, 31, who campaigned on "I have no faith in the U.S." She siphoned off 1,487 votes, the majority of them presumably from the Tories. But Candidate Greene was not the whole explanation; since the last...
...reason for this could well be the nationwide migration of families into the suburbs. It is also true that the Negroes have, on the whole, scored below their white classmates in IQ tests, but the inferiority of the all-Negro schools, rather than the pupils themselves, is to blame. Between 1945 and 1953, a total of 45,000 pupils had been on a half-day schedule because of overcrowding; of these, 80% were Negroes. Now all but about 1,500 can go to school a full day. As for disciplinary problems, eleven integrated high schools reported 410 serious offenses last...
...speech before the Authors' Club of London, his lordship charged that America must take the blame for much that is bad in current English. American slang is often "virile and admirable," and his lordship gave his blessings to such terms as bulldozer, blurb, debunk. But he was appalled by the U.S. use of face up to for face, meet up with for meet, check up on for check. "These atrocities are probably due to the influence of German immigrants who did not learn English...