Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question arose: Are auto horsepowers dangerously high? A good part of the uproar is mere exhaust rumble. Auto-industry engineers blame overzealous admen, who give the engines scorching nicknames ("Firedome," "Strato-Streak," "Blue-Flame") to promote the impression of jet-plane speeds and sell more cars in an ever tighter market. Sings an Oldsmobile ad: "Excitement rides with you when you ride a 'Rocket'/Free and fleet and vibrantly alive/For taking off, or taking a curve...
...must have another policy." To this challenge, the Deputies had no answer. Not even the Gaullists were recommending a return to all-out repression; not even the Socialists were objecting to the Faure program, only to the delays in carrying it out. With elections so near, nobody wanted either blame or credit for a different policy...
...carries liability coverage, along with members of his household or guests in his car, against bodily (but not property) injury that is the fault of any uninsured driver. Most of the state's mutual companies (onefourth of the total) will also pay damages regardless of who is to blame. The additional coverage (up to $10,000 per person but not more than $20,000 in all) is now free but will cost from $2.50 to $4 to drivers who choose to keep it when they renew their policies...
These graduate students, who refused to be identified except on the petition because of their delicate position as future foreign service agents, added that Harvard University was partially to blame for the new Tufts policy...
...actors are obviously to blame, yet they are only partly responsible; they have played as directed. Charles Boyer is a general who better resembles a priest. His deliberateness makes him dispirited in a part which calls for shrewdness. Seeing his wife off on a train, his rapt expression conveys no idea of what he is thinking. Vittorio De Sica as the Countess' admirer, misses the irony of his position. Only the Countess, Danielle Darricux, seems to have understood her role, but even she fails to exploit it fully...