Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking." Ike kept in his pocket another communique he had written in case of disaster: "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold, and I have withdrawn the troops. If there is any blame or fault attached to the attempt, it is mine alone." As Eisenhower lay dying at Walter Reed, plans were nearly completed for the celebration on Normandy's beaches of the invasion's 25th anniversary...
Biased Toward Blame. When forced to answer the question, as they frequently are, psychological experts will often fall back on the premise of their training. Wisconsin's Halleck notes that the average psychiatrist is slightly biased toward blame because in day-to-day practice he has found that "if he is ever going to help people overcome their difficulties, he must constantly implore them to assume responsibility for their actions." Nonetheless, psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrists, who tend to believe that unconscious forces determine a man's deeds, are more likely to find an offender nonresponsible; those who deal primarily...
...right from wrong are nonetheless patients in mental hospitals, and some courts permit more elastic definitions-such as the Durham rule.* If a man is deemed insane under any legal definition, he is not responsible for his criminal act at the time he committed it and therefore cannot be blamed for it. Says U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist John Suarez, "sane or insane is equivalent to guilty or not guilty." While psychiatrists are equipped to give an opinion of a man's mental state, they bridle at being asked to say whether a man should be blamed for a specific act, since...
Limiting Exports. Builders blame the price problem not only on heavy domestic demand, but on rising exports to Japan, whose timber purchases in the U.S. have increased twentyfold since 1960. Last year the Japanese bought enough lumber to erect 40% of the U.S. output of one-family homes. In response to complaints that numerous small lumber mills as well as price stability have been imperiled, Congress last fall sharply limited exports of lumber harvested from federal forests. But prices have continued to rise, partly because of severe winter weather in the Pacific Northwest and the recent East Coast longshoremen...
Vellucci said that these sites had been recommended to the City Council as possible housing sites and were voted down. He added that he felt the blame for the slowness of housing construction lies with the City Council, not with the CRA. He explained that he had voted in favor of each of the above housing sites...