Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate of $14.55 per bbl. After the cartel's communiqué was read to reporters at the Hotel Inter-Continental, and delegates had rushed to their gas-guzzling limousines parked at curbside, Saudi Arabia's natty oil ministers Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, said, "I don't blame you if you are confused...
...revelations of all concern Texan John Connally, whom Nixon and his aides consulted frequently even after he resigned in 1971 as Secretary of the Treasury. Leon Jaworski has reported that Connally suggested to Haig's predecessor, H.R. Haldeman, that John Mitchell should be persuaded to accept all the blame for Watergate. Republican enemies of Connally point to a tape played during his 1975 trial on charges of accepting money from milk producers in return for higher price supports. Though hard to decipher, it seemed to record Connally and Nixon discussing a large contribution from oilmen. But the tape...
...infernal machine capable of blowing capitalism sky-high or else some virtually infallible instrument for guiding their strategy." This crisis of confidence has been accelerated in Europe by the Third World's pervasive contempt for the West. Aron believes that the tendency of Africans and Latin Americans to blame the persistence of poverty on colonialism is a major victory of the Marxist-Leninists. He writes: "The propaganda message is that the Europeans owe their prosperity not to their own work but to the exploitation of the poor; imperialists, even when they withdraw from all their possessions, are still...
...appearance. Griffin's face was blue. Tears were running down it without restraint. He was so angry and upset that it took a couple of minutes before he could utter a word. 'I hate to see a grown man cry, but I didn't blame him,' Searcy said later. The captain was 'surprised' that some of the pilots didn't take the battle into their own hands and drop bombs against orders."He 'wouldn't have blamed them...
...reach a point when you can't blame UFOs anymore, when the caveman comes out of the closet without Mars or Jesus, when the politically retrograde bare their fangs and call it a smile. Here's Lansing Lamont, who can dismiss the entire Sixties as "a media-orchestrated protest revel," call the return of protest to college campuses "ugly," and homosexuality a "problem to be surmounted." Lamont yearns for the days when Harvard and the "elite universities" were one big Final Club, enjoying "comfortable, if snobbish intimacy" and "benign" parietal rules, all blond hair and blue eyes and a sure...