Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blame went to Engineer Southerland since his action was the best course to save the train. When an engine is torn loose, air brakes lock on the other cars, which can be stopped quicker with the engine's weight and momentum detached. Engineer Southerland kept his job until his death two years ago. About eight years ago the railroad was acquired by the Van Sweringen interests, taken out of receivership...
...headquarters. The power company pleaded in the inquiry that it was unable to understand how airport officials remained oblivious of the action. But Eastern Air, whose hard-bitten General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker sped to the spot, presently issued a bitter statement completely exonerating the flight personnel and putting the blame squarely on the power company. A damage suit seemed highly probable...
...surprised on a tip given by an informer, shot by Captain Wiltshire after Inspector Hannay's gun jams. When Maureen nevertheless helps Captain Wiltshire to escape a Sinn Fein trap, the Inspector realizes where her affections lie and, as a final gallant gesture, takes the blame for shooting her brother himself...
...massacre in which ten men were fatally shot outside the gates of Republic Steel's South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). After the open hearings in Washington and the showing of the famed Paramount newsreel of the riot, it was obvious whom the La Follette Committee would blame- the Chicago police. Concluded the Committee...
...clubbing right away from the first who reached me, and I could not very well blame them. We had all been told the best thing to do would be to shoot ourselves if we ever came down behind the enemy's lines, because they said we surely would be tortured before we were killed...