Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlike the Paris mob or the St. Petersburg mob-was baying in the streets of America. The President believed there were foreign influences. The newspapers were printing national secrets purloined by traitors. Mr. Nixon seemed to believe that extraordinary methods were called for, and I for one cannot blame...
...associates was nevertheless based on a plausible rationale. To give Nixon such knowledge, Mitchell argued, would either make the President a party to the cover-up or would cause him "to lower the boom" on all those involved and thereby expose their activities. This would lead the public to blame Nixon for the wrongdoing of his associates. It would hinder his re-election chances-and this would be "absolutely unfair and unjustified...
...faking of a State Department cable in an attempt to blame the Kennedy Administration for the 1963 assassination of South Viet Nam's President Diem...
...order to permit those coming up to do the corner's fighting and earn, in turn, their "reps." Serving a term in jail also boosts a member's reputation, and many gangs exploit that fact as a means of getting the youngest members to take the blame for the crimes of older boys-knowing a 14-year-old is likely to be treated more leniently in courts...
...appearance, as he did in a famous feud with Vladimir Nabokov, is Wilson the noble crank. Here he makes a dyspeptic but delightful attack on the cumbersome, pedantic paraphernalia assembled by the Modern Language Association (the college literature teachers' "union") to edit and publish classic American authors. The blame, says Wilson, goes back to "our oppressive Ph.D. system of which we would have been well rid if, at the time of the First World War, when we were renaming our hamburgers Salisbury Steak and our sauerkraut Liberty Cabbage, we had decided to scrap it as a German atrocity...