Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Something must be wrong with Cambridge," Lynch told City Manager Curry. "Is the Chamber of Commerce to blame? Is it the presence of Harvard and M.I.T...
...widow and several journalist friends after "Mitch" Davenport died last year at 54) is a searching inquiry into the greatness as well as the failures of America. Fear of Nothing. When Communist dictators claim Svoboda as their own, when Communist slave masters accuse capitalism of slavery, Americans blame "Communist propaganda." But, Davenport points out, the trouble is deeper than that, for Communist propaganda appeals to "human universals" in the name of a new view of man-materialist, dialectical man. "Our enemy is not any particular nation. It is not any particular army. It is not even any particular form...
When corruption was rife, when top officials piled up vast fortunes in unexplained transactions, when officers defected, Chiang instinctively turned his thoughts inward to reproach himself for failure to inspire with his own standards. After his final retreat to Formosa, he told the National Assembly: "I must put the blame on myself . . . The disastrous military reverses on the mainland were not due to the overwhelming strength of the Communists, but due to the organizational collapse, loose discipline and low spirits of the party members...
India's Prime Minister Nehru last week surveyed the world around him, as he likes to do in rambling speeches to Parliament. He concluded that 1) things are getting worse, 2) the U.S. is to blame. "There is a passion for military pacts," Nehru said. "Such pacts do change the world, but they change it for the worse . . . The world has fallen into a dangerously simple way of looking at things-that everything and everyone must be Communist or anti-Communist . . . Because a person has a hydrogen bomb, it does not mean that his mind has become as powerful...
...Costs. Part of the blame for the new cold front can be laid to a few U.S. businessmen who did indeed charge up to 30% for patent rights on everything from cowboy hats to rubber falsies, at a time when Japanese businessmen would pay any price to get back into world markets. But the fact is that U.S. industrial tie-ups pulled Japan out of the rubble, filled a ten-year research gap and boosted the nation's export potential...