Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many believed that this year might well turn out to be the era-ending date when the British would summon the supreme effort to vanquish the Americans, which so far they have only been able to do on their native heath. After all, who could blame a British golfer if upon seeing the misty winds careening along the fairways that Willie Dunn laid out on Shinnecock's hills on Long Island, he mistook it for the grizzled links at Musselburgh in the Midlothian, where Dunn was born over a century...
...full report. The report, he said, should have been forwarded by Carter's transition team to the Ribicoff committee. "Some members of the Carter Administration withheld this information," said Stokes. Stung by accusations that he had prematurely closed the case, Stokes was clearly eager to shift the blame. "Why should I burn," he asked rhetorically, "while this Administration fiddles...
...Jimmy Carter, the affair may be a domestic Bay of Pigs, on a far less serious level. John Kennedy shouldered the blame for that disaster and emerged from it scarred but, in a sense, enlarged. How Carter now concludes the Lance affair may well determine not only how bad his scars will be but also how capable he is of growing in the presidency. Blaming others for having failed to detect Lance's flaws, or denying that the appointment was a mistake, would do him no good and could damage him further. But if Carter were to assume full responsibility...
...constructed, deliberate game of jump shots; not full of slam dunks and blocked shots. Basketball is a serious ritualistic thing for kids in the ghetto, and it's such a sham for these kids that they sit in the stands and laugh and I can't say that I blame them...
...difficult to concentrate on political questions when there are so many new people around to meet, and you can't blame everyone for that. People are trying hard to have the proverbial "good time," though not everyone seems to be succeeding. Nervousness and self-consciousness abound. "All the Harvard stereotypes are here. Everyone I've talked to is nervous," one woman declared...