Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready outline for every branch of the center; you will have to study it carefully and to remember all questions and answers which the court might ask . . . Your future will depend on how the trial goes and on its results. If you begin to lie and testify falsely, blame yourself. If you manage to endure it, you will save your head, and we will feed and clothe you at the government's cost until your death...
...Nizam called a halt: Azam's 23-year-old son, now at Sandhurst, and not Azam himself, would become the Nizam's heir. Henceforth, the Nizam announced in an ad in a local paper, anyone lending money to son Azam "would have to bear the consequences and blame themselves for their losses...
...fellow Communist, David Siqueiros, was glad to oblige: "When Diego started painting this mural, I told him that polystyrene, like any other paint, was not going to resist water for even two years. I advised Rivera to use mosaic, but Diego paid no attention to me." The real blame, of course, could be traced to the capitalist paintmakers who have refused to develop a truly waterproof paint. Said Siqueiros: "The truth is that the capitalist world has not done anything to solve this important problem...
...voiced public disapproval of FRB's fifth boost in the discount rate in a year (to 3% in two districts), although President Eisenhower publicly defended the right of the independent agency to use its own judgment. General Motors' President Harlow H. Curtice went so far as to blame Detroit's sliding auto sales on FRB's credit-crimping policies. On FRB's side are such experts as J. P. Morgan Chairman Henry C. Alexander, who thinks FRB "was wrong only in not being more vigorous a little sooner," Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter and retiring...
What killed the Big Show? Circusmen blame skyrocketing costs. Ringling last year paid a $500,000 railroad bill v. $150,000 in 1940. Downtown circus lots big enough for the 26,000-yard oval of the Big Top are either unavailable or exorbitantly expensive in most U.S. cities. For a business whose methods have changed little since its cheap-labor heyday, the cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping...