Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talked about Lalich when they left the Stadium Saturday, and they talked about his sidekick, a 260 lb. sophomore from Quincy, a bruising, sure-handed end named Pete Varney. No one will say who suggested switching Varney from halfback to end, but as the head coach must accept all blame so too must he accept the praise. The Lalich-Varney combination makes Yovicsin look very good...
...some extent, Krock himself takes the blame for the Supreme Court's liberal outlook. It was he who suggested, in 1939, the appointment of Justice William O. Douglas, one of his closest Washington friends, who turned out to be one of the Court's most unyielding liberals...
Poverty, of course, is the heart of the problem. Alabama's economy has been shaky since Reconstruction days, and the euphemistic talk of the "New South" has little evident effect outside of the few industrial centers like Birmingham or Huntsville. To some extent, this general economic depression is to blame for the black poverty, and liberal-but-loyal white southerners concernedly tell visitors that "these poor folks--black ones and white ones--are a real problem...
...Soviet Union itself has openly recognized the problem. In a long commentary, Pravda admitted that "many people, including Communists in fraternal parties," did not agree with the Soviet Union's action in Czechoslovakia. Pravda put the blame on the inability of outsiders to perceive that a "quiet counterrevolution" had, in fact, been going on in Czechoslovakia. One must not wait, wrote Pravda, "for the shooting of Communists and the appearance of gallows before going to the aid of the adherents of socialism." Such tortuously dogmatic reasoning was apt to exacerbate rather than calm the anger of Communists abroad...
...have been extremely miserly with his personal independence. With typical Latin machismo, he brags about his womanizing and the fact that no female ever succeeded in tying him down. Indeed, Montejo appears to have made a successful career out of avoiding entangling alliances of any sort. Who can blame him for being a little self-satisfied about it? At 107, Montejo clearly has reason to believe that he must be doing something right...