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Word: blame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blue eye blue, a bow, a ball, a blue jean blue?" Or perhaps he wants "slicker yellow, sunshine yellow, lemonade and daisy yellow." But no; despite the additional temptations of purple, brown, pink and orange, the boy hews to one hue: "A cherry, berry, very red." And who can blame him? Keiko Narahashi shows a rainbow of appealing items, but the best is obviously Santa Claus on a fire engine. What redder, better way to say Merry Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child's Garden of Lore And Laughter | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Shultz had also been frustrated in every attempt to move the many parties in the Middle East toward peace -- and he seemed to blame Arab leaders far more than Israeli intransigence for his failures. His personal distrust of the Arabs stems from their regular rejection of his initiatives, such as the 1983 Lebanon accord, which was immediately scuttled by Syria. At the same time, his support for Israel, despite provocations like the Pollard spy affair, has been unflagging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of A Decision | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...really can't blame Medea for acting like Alexis Colby. After all, it's not every day that the father of your two sons dumps you to marry a royal princess. Too bad Medea didn't have a case of china at her disposal when Jason tried to explain to her that he married the princess because it would be a beneficial move for the state. It might have come in handy...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Diary of a Mad Housewife | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...decision is the nation's first to link residential and school segregation, and blame city government for both. Yet, instead of solving the problem, the 600-page decision in the Yonkers case actually fueled the controversy...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Just Action in Yonkers | 12/7/1988 | See Source »

PUBLIC RELATIONS: this will be the type of effort that the Bush administration will be trying to make when they reverse campaign promises and raise taxes. This is when the administration will blame a tax hike on the Democratic Congress, or claim that economic circumstances are vastly different than during the election. This should be called PROPAGANDA...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: A New Political Glossary | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

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