Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the blame for rising prices can be placed on the tightening British blockade, which has sent the cost of imports, including most manufactured goods, soaring. Even common and once cheap imports like salt, essential for the preservation of food, have grown greatly in value. When it can be obtained, salt costs 8 shillings 6 pence, v. 3 shillings 9 pence three months...
Much of the blame, however, can also be placed on the cost of the war itself, which is vastly more than anyone would have predicted even a few months ago. Not only have purchases for the Army made many scarce goods scarcer, but Congress has been forced to print much more paper money than it had anticipated. According to current estimates, another 5 million Continental dollars will have to be emitted later this month in addition to the 15 million so far.* This "emission" is done simply by printing more paper money, but since Congress has no right to levy...
...blame a working girl like Elizabeth Ray for making Hays while the sun shines [June 7]. The Ohio Representative pays for his fun with our money−a clear case of taxation without representation...
...British mercenaries' basic defense was that they merely acted under the orders of Callan, who on the second day of the trial had in fact accepted the blame for any crimes committed by his subordinates. "Anything they are charged with is my responsibility," the swaggering former paratrooper told the tribunal. "I don't want to answer any more questions, O.K.? I've made my statement...
...hotel room. Mitchell soon after resigned as Nixon's campaign manager and moved with Martha to a 14-room Manhattan apartment. But she was not pacified for long. She publicly accused "Mr. President" of deep involvement in Watergate, condemned him for letting Mitchell and others take the blame, and demanded that he resign. By then her impulsiveness and heavy drinking were so celebrated that few took her often slurred words seriously...