Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Batista gives far more freedom than the other three strongmen. But Cubans are restive. University students, courting martyrdom, clash constantly with Batista's police, who often react hotheadedly. A fortnight ago a 22-year-old girl student was cruelly tortured, and the regime, rightly or wrongly, got the blame. To relieve the heat and pressure, Batista may have to make the concession that his opposition demands: free elections soon...
...Pays? Caught in this predicament, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week, as several times before, sought to pin some of the blame for low farm prices on the meat packing industry. Said he, at a San Francisco gathering of the Western States Meat Packers Association: "Last August the packing industry granted wage increases equal to roughly a $50 million annual boost. Who paid for the increase? The evidence is that most of it was paid by ranchers and farmers-who paid by taking lower prices for meat animals." As evidence. Benson cited Agriculture Department figures showing that...
...brutal and senseless mob attack, besides turning the stomach of even his warm supporters, apparently went beyond the dictator's intentions. He blustered that the opposition's "intellectual guerrillas" were to blame, and threatened to "fight back without quarter." He also moved fast to hush up news of the massacre. By quickly blocking news cables, the government successfully kept the story out of most papers abroad; only travelers' reports, days later, spelled out the ugly truth. The government's censors muzzled the local press...
...university for "not deigning to consult with the NAACP." He emphasized the need for communication in order to avoid misunderstandings and conflicts. "While the NAACP was injudicious in some of its statements," he said, "it was not a real cause of the riots. The university was more to blame for its aloofness...
...play is confusing, the Canterbury Players are not to blame. Director David Green skillfully uses the choir and pulpit of Christ Church as a set, and the production at times generates a good deal of excitement. His emphasis on movement, however, seems a bit too great, because in a few spots he makes the actors speak so fast that Fry's lines are hard to understand...