Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually followed by one that comes up even higher still." But Clem Attlee's thin voice did not carry conviction. "Differences within our ranks," he said. "That has done us a lot of harm." The man responsible for the "differences," Rebel Aneurin Bevan, was ready to blame Labor's defeat on the party leadership's milksopping me-tooism, though his own divisive tactics and his class-hating rancor probably drove away more votes than his flaming oratory brought out. Bevan himself dropped more than 2,000 in his own coal-mining stomping ground at Ebbw Vale...
...placed the "infernal machine" in the plane's wheel-well was an unanswered question. Before anyone could possibly know what had happened. Radio Peking had laid the blame on "secret agent organizations of the U.S. and Chiang Kai-shek,': a charge which the State Department promptly dismissed as "preposterous.' Last week the Hong Kong government, taking the Indonesian findings at face value, said that "it seems probable that the explosive device was placed in the aircraft in Hong Kong." The British Foreign Office agreed. When the plane wa= serviced and refueled at Hong Kong, the British...
...week the air was full of brickbats for Secretary Hobby and her department, although President Eisenhower defended her (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In retrospect, a good deal of the blame for the vaccine snafu also went to the National foundation, which, with years of publicity, had built up the danger of polio out of all proportion to its actual incidence, and had rushed into vaccinations this year with patently insufficient preparation...
...last week remembered out loud that he had earned a pretty penny playing even before he turned pro. Everybody knows that "amateur" tennis-tournament travelers get fat under-the-table fees, wrote Big Jake in This Week magazine-everybody, that is, except the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. And why blame the players? Why call them tennis bums? Topnotch tennis is a 52-week-a-year job; tennis stars have to earn a living like anybody else...
...Owen Roberts won fame as prosecutor in the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal, was named to the high court by Herbert Hoover, eventually became the sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist, he headed the controversial 1942 Pearl Harbor Report board that exonerated the Roosevelt Administration of blame for unpreparedness. after his retirement devoted much of his time to fostering support for a political union of democratic nations. His favorite judicial maxim, drawn from Justice Holmes: "If a law makes you want to puke, then due process has been denied...