Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mass. Hall takeovers, as Ratner implies. The ACSR was set up in 1972 for the very purpose of bringing student, faculty, and alumni views into the management of Harvard's portfolio. If students in recent years have failed to use the ACSR effectively, they have none but themselves to blame...
...hoped to deal with the war when he became President? Said he: "The most popular position to take on Viet Nam ... was to bug out and blame it on Johnson and Kennedy." But he did not take this easy way because "Kennedy and Johnson were right in going into Viet Nam." Nixon's only regret about his own tactics, he said, was that "I didn't act stronger sooner." Had the U.S. employed saturation bombing of civilian centers in Southeast Asia, he went on, the war would have ended "in a tragic way, but much, much sooner...
...nose, and Bell began to laugh, because it took all of three seconds for the match to flame up. "LSMFT," he mumbled. Camfort stopped, looked surprised, asked what? "I said," said Bell, taking great care with his words, "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. Now there's only me to blame 'cause Mama tried," he sang brokenly with the record. "How's your Mama Reed...
...AURA of incompetence surrounding the selection of the University's new athletic director has proved an embarrassment to the administration. It has been several months since Robert B. Watson '37 announced his retirement effective this summer, and as of yet no replacement has been found. The blame for such an inexcusable delay lies not with a few individuals, but rather in the attitude with which the whole affair has been approached...
...Nixon blames South Viet Nam's sudden collapse in 1975 on Capitol Hill, rather than on the weakness of the Thieu regime. By slashing aid to Saigon, he says, Congress "cut off Thieu's water. Congress lost it... and they have to take the blame for it." Was the long, costly effort to buy time for the Thieu regime worth it? "Two years is worth something." Nixon insists. He concedes that history must judge the wisdom of this policy, and concludes, "It will be a close call...