Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what's on their minds," Homans said yesterday. "They just want to get this thing out of the way as quickly as possible and I don't blame them...
They have also found a common scapegoat for their past troubles. Lagu insists that the British, not the northern Sudanese, were originally to blame for the civil war: "They deliberately kept us backward. They should .have taken a clear-cut line in the Sudan, either divide the country or unify it. They did neither, and we paid the price. But now the Sudan is finally going to work...
...Medical authorites generally blame poor sanitation, blood transfusions and drug addicts' needles for the spread of serum hepatitis, a debilitating and sometimes fatal liver disease. Now it appears that the mosquito might also transmit the ailment. Studies by Rutgers University, the New York Blood Center and the New Jersey Medical School concentrated on tropical mosquitoes. After drawing blood from a person known to be a chronic carrier of hepatitis, the laboratory-raised insects retained the virus for three days and presumably could have transmitted the infection if allowed to attack another victim. The researchers know of no hepatitis cases...
...Israelis at least had a handy and visible target to which to attach blame -however fairly or unfairly. But Europeans could not so easily deal with either exported Middle Eastern violence or the haphazard terrorism that has lately and bewilderingly become almost endemic in their own lands...
...book What About Horoscopes? Evangelical Author-Editor Joseph Bayly lays much of the blame at the door of traditional Christianity. "Another age might have turned to the church in its anxiety and desire for a mystical element in life," writes Bayly. "But to many people, today's church seems impotent because it is identified with the problems it should be solving. They see the church as a mere authenticator of the Establishment. The individual is a unit to be counted in large church meetings, his money rung up, just as he is counted by business, university and government for their...