Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever share of the blame Moore deserves, he is in no apparent danger of losing his job. He has known Carter longer than anyone else on the White House staff. They first met in the early 1960s and worked together in 1966 on a Georgia planning commission. Moore, 42, joined Carter's gubernatorial staff in 1970 and in 1972 replaced Hamilton Jordan as Carter's executive secretary and legislative liaison when Jordan went to work for the Democratic National Committee in Washington...
...roots of the racial violence are familiar: a suspicion of unfamiliar customs and a tendency to blame problems on newcomers. Many Bradfordians complain that destitute immigrants are given cash payments by the government when they disembark at Heathrow Airport, while white pensioners must scrimp along on inadequate retirement pay. Describing herself as opposing immigration, Shopkeeper Patricia Barrow is convinced that the Pakistanis inhumanely slaughter sheep and chickens according to Islamic ritual; she also fears that "colored boys will be hanging around white girls...
...women are not as good as the men, but much of the blame lies with the format. Limited by dull solos and inadequate staging, the women are struck standing in the middle of the set. They make monotonous gestures and facial expressions and sing in voices too weak to carry the songs...
...also came to Harvard with a fledgling sense of injustice, an awareness that my need to hide was brought on by a defect in society, not in me. It was society that was at fault and to blame for my unhappiness...
...common knowledge that Harvard hockey coach Bill Cleary is not only a nice guy and a good hockey coach, but he also won't talk to The Crimson. I really can't blame him for that, because I won't talk to a lot of the people on The Crimson, either...