Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parmelee explained that Mongolism may occur in any family-that parents are not to blame. Studies indicate that injuries of unknown origin during prenatal life-most likely near the eighth week of pregnancy-may be the cause...
...city hall, demanding that the beer hall be moved out of the city to Negro quarters. But they got a brusque reply from American-born City Councilor Hyman Miller, an ex-mayor of Johannesburg. Snapped Miller angrily: "You can't put down racial tensions that way. The blame lies with us whites. We've failed to build up a contented Negro community. There's too much want among them. They want homes, decent lives and a stake in their land. They want opportunity and cultural uplift. Give them these things, and you won't have...
Anybody who stays home these nights to look at TV has only himself to blame for thin returns. It is the height of the wrong season-summer replacement time. This year the networks have surpassed even their own previous records for caution and lack of imagination. They have abandoned experimental summer shows, thrown in old fillers from previous summer seasons, and provided no new personalities to freshen up wilted offerings...
...Heinrich von Brentano for G.I. misbehavior. Stung by German charges of "helpless excuses," U.S. European Commander General Henry I. Hodes ordered a midnight curfew for West Germany's 150,000 G.I.s, promised to weed out "misfits and lawbreakers" from U.S. units. Some Army commanders are inclined to blame the increase in serious violence on the Army's much-ballyhooed new "Operation Gyroscope," whereby entire units, up to divisions, trade duty stations. Formerly, fresh groups of young draftees went into old units, where they benefited from the restraining influence of veteran troops...
...editorial: "Sometimes a newspaper finds it the necessary, or at least the humane thing to do to stop and ask whether a given story should be reported, and when, and whether a life may be put in jeopardy by premature publication of all or certain details. We cannot blame the grief-stricken parents or the police for the indignation they have expressed...