Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students, teachers, colleges and medical schools alike. Present medical school admission requirements, they contend, attract a vocationally oriented group of students to liberal arts colleges. Many of these students have little interest in courses which do not obviously contribute to their occupational objectives. The students are not entirely to blame, however. Medical schools, for instance, contribute to overspecialization by suggesting lists of "recommended" science courses beyond the necessary minimum. As a result, say the authors, premeds interested in the humanities tend to forego courses in literature in order to study more chemistry...
...Grice. The neighbors who carried Harry's body home from the nearby lane in which they found it. and the doctor and the policemen who were called in to take charge, all agreed that Harry had been the victim of a heart attack. Nobody thought to put any blame on the innocent-looking bottle of ginger beer that was found in Harry's pocket. Mrs. Grice. mother of six and once again heavy with child, put the bottle on the kitchen table and set herself to comforting her children...
...neighbors left. But that night two-year-old Pamela could not sleep. Mrs. Grice carried her to the kitchen and gave her a soothing teaspoonful of ginger beer-out of the bottle on the kitchen table. Twenty minutes later Pamela Grice was dead. At long last, someone thought to blame the bottle of ginger beer. It proved to be well spiked with cyanide, for with it, Harry Grice had achieved his wish for suicide...
...Allingham says he was only able to shrug hopefully in reply. After indicating that he had visited both Venus and the Moon says Allingham, the Martian also asked if Earthmen would soon reach the Moon. When Allingham nodded, the Martian's broad brow clouded up. "And who can blame them?" asks the author. "We have not yet proved ourselves fit to rule our own planet, let alone visit others and perhaps influence their affairs." Soon after, reports Allingham, the Martian popped back into his saucer and sped off to space...
...appears to have been a major difference of opinion over the amount of emphasis to put on consumer goods as opposed to heavy industry," William L. Langer '15, Director of the Russian Research Center, said. Malenkov, in resigning as Prime Minister accepted the signing as Prime Minister accepted the blame for the failure of agricultural production--Khrushchev has stood for emphasis on heavy industry...