Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, seizing on a legal quibble (the case was improperly drawn) to mask its compassion, Spain's supreme court reversed the lower court's decision and ab solved Don Agustin of all blame with the passing note that he "was motivated by the sole desire to resolve with honor and efficiency the multiple and urgent problems facing his community." From all over Spain, letters of congratulation poured in, but for Don Agustin, onetime mayor of Santisteban, the kindest words of all were spoken by a weather-beaten olive picker in his town. "Don Agustin," said...
Dean decides to tell the police. His parents, horrified of notoriety, say no. "You can't be idealistic," his father pleads. Dean explodes: "A kid was killed! Every time you can't face yourself, you blame it on me." In the end, still another adolescent goes to a senseless death...
...antibiotic-perhaps any drug used to kill bacteria-might cause this disorder said Dr. Weiss, but most often to blame are the "broad-spectrum" antibiotics such as aureomycin, terramycin, Chloromycetin. The doctor may be using these wisely against an infection for which they are known to be effective, or unwisely against virus" diseases in which they are not likely to be of any use. Either way the antibiotics kill off many of the bacteria normally found in a healthy intestinal tract. In so doing, they disturb the balance of nature and leave the depopulated gut as a breeding ground...
...child -is on the needle again. Tormented by his cravings, he is also tormented by the brutal, scrounging pushers who can supply the drugs. His well-meaning brother knows of his vice and has given him money for it; his unhappy wife does not know and can only blame some unknown woman for his neglect and his absences from home. Out of such a situation emerges a highly theatrical problem play...
...Yale coach placed part of the blame for Harvard's mediocre performance on the Crimson's vaunted forward wall. "Although the line has done fine defensively, it has not shown what it was expected to offensively," the coach explained...