Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany, the Free Democratic Party denounced RFE's operations as "a crime against humanity." Embittered Hungarian refugees and Free Democratic Party papers took up the cry. Said Bonn's Freies Wort: "Irresponsible promises of help and aggressive propaganda of RFE carry a good part of the blame for the blood bath in Hungary." At RFE's Munich headquarters, European Director Richard Condon denied the charges: "In no broadcast did RFE incite to armed revolt or indulge in cheap, inflammatory propaganda. In no broadcast was the promise of active help by the West given...
...distributions are made through public channels, and are, in effect, competition for local grocers. Small grocers, fighting to survive the inroads of chain stores and supermarkets, have already felt the press of the Government's burgeoning program. Wholesale grocery sales in Arkansas have dropped about 14%, and grocers blame at least half the drop on the surplus-disposal program. "We think the free groceries have cut into business." says W. Earl Fitzgerald, executive secretary of Michigan's Food Industry Committee, "but we distribute them as a civic gesture...
Fall-Out or Saucers? A few pigeon fanciers blame an unusual combination of the pigeons' normal enemies: hawks, hunters, high-tension wires, TV aerials, adverse weather. Others are not so complacent, pointing out that these familiar dangers would not be likely to increase in New Jersey, Arizona and England at the same time...
Some fanciers have appealed to pigeon-wise scientists, but have got little help. Science does not really understand the mysterious instincts or special senses that guide pigeons home. Other desperate pigeonmen blame radar, TV broadcasting and radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests. Some think that secret Government experiments are "disrupting air waves and currents so the pigeons can't find their way home...
Monsarrat's narrative is as taut as a bush tent in the rainy season. As for his conclusions, he will not please those with spurs to polish or assagais to grind. Blame, he says, lies on both sides of the color bar. Monsarrat has settled for the honest and general indignation of the 'philosophical dictum that a man born into the world with a sense of smell has a duty to cry "stinking fish...