Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unable to absolve Rear Admiral Sidney Bailey from all blame. He adopted an unusual procedure in directing the Hood and Renown to steer definite courses so close. ... It was incumbent on him at the proper moment to make a further signal to re-form his squadron...
...Dictator's words of blame as related by Comrade Yakovlev himself after he left the Kremlin: "The policy of squeezing the peasants* will not do. It is wrong. If you want to succeed, under present conditions, you must think not only of the collectives but also of the individual interests of farmers...
Newell Paige, a rising young surgeon, was assisting his admired senior, Dr. Endicott. at a difficult operation. Dr. Endicott was more worried about the tottering market than about the job in hand. He made a fatal blunder; the patient died. Paige, horrified, took the blame, left town, threw up his career, changed his name, brooded, talked to his dog. When he met the dead patient's daughter it was mutual love at a glance, but she found out who he was. Their ways parted-it seemed, finally. But thanks to a crippled old clergyman, who was a perfect dynamo...
...real tragedy in the case was poor Secretary Ickes. In a fight in which he had no interest, he was made to take the whole blame for the autocracy of his superior. How pathetic and weak he seemed when reporters asked him about the Moses case! All he could do in his defence was re-assert again and again his boredom about the whole matter. Then finally having been released from carrying through such an impossible and unjust action, he must make silly, hypocritical excuses for the whole affair, and let the world despise him more. Let us hope that...
Asserting that he was "amazed and appalled" by the unrest noticed in his recent tour of the country, Filene charged that business was solely to blame for enrollment of a claimed 34,000,000 under the banners of Long, Coughlin, or Townsend. Instead of cooperating with the Administration, it had "stalled and balked and held back until the masses are now losing hope," he said...