Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blame for the world's soaring petroleum prices? The vast majority of consumers and experts alike would readily answer: OPEC. During the past four years, the eleven-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has more than quintupled oil prices, raising the present tag to about $13 a barrel...
...There is blame enough for all, players and coach, in Detroit, but winning has made it all bearable to fans-and apparently to management. There is a precedent: the baseball Oakland A's demonstrated that a team can fight and win at the same time...
...only one. McLaughlin takes Ralph to task for apathy and irresponsibility, saying "He hasn't proposed one thing to help Middlesex County--not an idea in almost two years." Danehy attacks him for never having filed a bill in the legislature. They both call him a spendthrift and blame him for Somerville's skyrocketing property tax, which has risen from $199.70 per $1000 to $237.60 in the last year. McLaughlin says that in the two years before becoming a commissioner, he watched Ralph drive the county budget up 25 percent. During his two-year tenure, McLaughlin credits himself and Danehy...
England's 17th Poet Laureate was not without sympathizers. Said Poet Geoffrey Grigson: "Betjeman is not really to blame. The problem is having to get emotional about the monarchy at all." History seems to support Grigson's point. Most Laureates have found the muse reluctant to lower herself for mere royalty. At the birth of Prince Andrew in 1960, C. Day Lewis, Betjeman's predecessor, had to make do with "You princely babe, you pretty dear/ For you we bring/ The birthday honors of the quickening year." He could have done worse. When the future Edward...
...feel stronger." Gratton's famous teammate Phil Esposito thinks the bright mask "is terrific. It makes Gratton happier, so he plays better." Indeed, the Rangers won a victory the very first time the goalie wore teeth. But Emile Francis, coach of the losing St. Louis Blues, declined to blame the mask. "If a player is close enough to see it, he's not looking at it," said Francis dryly. "He's looking for a hole in the net." Fangs...