Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trust my brother, I carried him to blame...
...alleged plotting began after Nasser, casting around for a scapegoat for his humiliating defeat, put the blame on his army and sacked 800 officers, including Amer. Holing up in his villa in the fashionable Cairo suburb of Giza, said the prosecution, Amer offered refuge to other similarly displaced officers, and more than 50 moved in. With them they brought seven truckloads of grenades, pistols, machine guns and ammunition. At one point, when government security forces tried to intercept Haridi as he went out for cigarettes, guards at the windows and doors opened up with guns, wounding two soldiers...
...with a natural terror about what awaits you if you refuse conscription; and perhaps you will not feel strong enough to bear the consequences of refusal, and knowing your weakness, will submit and become a soldier. I understand completely, and I do not for a moment allow myself to blame you, knowing very well that in your place I might perhaps do the same thing. Only do not say that you did it because it was useful or because everyone does it. If you did it, know that you did wrong," Tolstoy wrote...
...would otherwise never see. The drawback, of course, is that much of TV programming has little to do with the real world. Adults are often depicted as bickering, tension-ridden morons. If, for instance, Video Boy had Lucy for a mother and Fred Flintstone for a father, who could blame him if he ran off to join the flower children...
...blame? Not Video Boy. Like any child, he looks at TV not because it is so compelling, but because it is there. Offer him something better and he will watch it just as avidly. That responsibility falls partly to the networks, but mostly to the parents. Child psychiatrists agree that parents should-indeed must-exercise some control over TV viewing time and program selection. Otherwise, Video Boy may retreat to the box, and any time spent beyond 25 hours of weekly viewing is regarded as a sign of emotional disturbance...