Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still more urgent question was whether the crucial 18 minutes of humming on the Haldeman tape could have been caused by what some Washington cynics have dubbed "Rose Mary's boo-boo." Apart from the fact that she would only take the blame for part of that gap, could her actions with the recorder have created such a noise...
Last week's developments demonstrated again that Nixon's Watergate defense has been remarkably inept. Asked who was to blame, one attorney representing a major Watergate defendant replied: "The White House lawyers." But he also sympathized with them, contending that the President handicaps his own defense by not completely leveling with even his own attorneys. Wan and worn out from defending the President on Watergate since last May, the loyal Buzhardt obviously has slipped out of presidential favor...
...TROELL DELINEATES the central, original crack in the innocence myth--the new land was stolen from Indians who were hanged or murdered for trying to retake it. Troell does not blame the immigrants for a situation they did not create ("I paid a fair price for the land," says Karl-Oscar). The Indian dilemma is a symptom of the wider problem that underlies the history of the immigrant experience. At the center of the quest for the immigrant dream is a hollow place, born of the loss of the old home and bred of the sacrifices that...
Harvard's financiers blame the drop on a bad year in the stock market. They maintain, however, that despite a weak Wall St., Harvard managed to do better than everyone else...
...than 4 per cent was owned in the states Middle South serves. Middle South is a company owned in the North but operated--in a way that does nothing to further racial equality--in the South. As absentee landlords, Middle South's Northern stockholders bear as much of the blame for the company's employment policies as do its Southern managers...