Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some blame the fusillade on the "lively" ball, a contention disputed by Ball-makers A. G. Spalding & Bros., which has ordered a resiliency test to settle the matter once and for all. Craftier amateur physicists attribute the fence-busting to the fact that sluggers have shifted from the 52-oz. sledge hammer Babe Ruth once wielded to lighter. 30-to 32-oz. bats that whip the ball like a golf driver. Last week Dave Grote, National League pressagent who has been thinking about it. offered still another theory: today's hitters hit more homers because they are bigger, stronger...
Geologists have developed many theories to account for the ebb and flow of glaciers in Europe and North America. Some blame external causes, such as interstellar dust or changes in the earth's atmosphere. In Science, Professors (of geology) Maurice Ewing of Columbia University and William L. Bonn of Brooklyn College propound a theory of ice ages that requires no cause external to the earth and no change in the atmosphere...
Take up the White Man's burden, And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard-The cry of hosts ye humor (Ah, slowly!) toward the light: "Why brought ye us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night...
Russia's David Oistrakh to William Moennig Jr. during his U.S. visit: "I'd love to play one of your violins in my concerts, but I must use a Strad. Otherwise, if I made a mistake, people would blame it on the instrument...
...government stayed mum. Then London's weekly Observer interviewed Reporter Gerard for two pro-Algerian columns. Said she: "I felt I was watching the birth of a nation. I love my own country too much to blame them for loving theirs." That touched off a French police raid on her home. They ransacked her files, put her through a daylong interrogation. At one point her interrogator demanded: "Where does liberalism end and treason begin?" Then she was charged with "attack against the external security of the state and the integrity of the territory" and put in jail to await...