Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guess the underlying reason why Harvard came from ahead to lose to a team it had earlier annihilated, 82-31, was the home advantage. For instance, a team is hardly ever disqualified at home, only on the road. It's a copout to blame the Crimson's defeat on such a nebulous sports phrase as "home advantage," but I must confess I just can't think of any other reason...
...energy shortage can possibly be corrected in time only through worldwide cooperation in natural-resource pooling. There will always be those looking for someone or something to blame for any sad situation. Bertrand Russell once said: "We do not like to be robbed of an enemy: we want someone to hate when we suffer." I blame, instead of an oil company, only my own unrestrained desires for material comfort...
...blame for this pathetic stageblight? The accusing finger has to be pointed at the three producers, who brought the show here after a commercial success Off-Broadway in New York, and the five authors, who wasted good paper and ink writing it. There is no need to list their names. Hopefully they will continue to bask in the obscurity they now enjoy...
...basic problems - nor those of Israel, which is now going through its greatest crisis of confidence since it gained independence. No matter what the final outcome on the battlefields of October, most Israelis feel that they lost the political and diplomatic war, and they are looking for someone to blame. The Prime Minister herself has suffered a Nixonesque drop in the public opinion polls - from 65% support before the war to 21% today. Dayan, the hero of the 1967 war, is now constantly derided for the disastrous early setbacks of 1973. Indeed, one popular hero of the Yom Kippur...
Although Solzhenitsyn's deportation created scarcely a dent in East-West relations, the Soviets tried to blame possible future disturbance on Solzhenitsyn himself. An 8,000-word article in Literary Gazette last week suggested that the writer and other dissidents must be held responsible for any setbacks in the course of detente. There was, however, little cause for Kremlin concern. Diplomats in most major European capitals generally agreed that the Soviets acted with a degree of restraint in exiling Solzhenitsyn rather than liquidating him, as would have happened under Stalin. One measure of detente, argued a high-ranking State...