Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like all tenants, he doesn't want to move," she said. "You can't blame him. [North Beach] is an ideal place to live...
Accusing President Clinton of shying away from his responsibility to the black community, a panel of nine journalists at the ARCO Forum last night discussed where to place the blame for the continued racial divide that exists in America...
Boyhood is unusual not only in style, but in motive as well. While most writers of memoirs blame their parents for turning them into screw-ups, Coetzee takes a decidely unconventional turn. The young Coetzee resents his privilege. At school, he is the model student, finishing first in all his classes without a semblance of strain. At home, he is "an irascible despot," displacing his ineffectual father as the household's center of attention: "He has never worked out the position of his father in the household. In fact, it is not obvious to him by what right his father...
...panel also included Tom and Ann Taylor, the parents of a gay son who said they blame themselves for his homosexuality but have learned to accept him in spite...
...dual tragedy in Jackson Township, a New York City suburb of 36,000, cut to parents' worst fears about how much freedom they can really afford children to roam sidewalks or cyberspace. Community members and the local press were quick to ascribe larger blame for the horrid crime. Shouldn't the unregulated Internet be made accountable? Or the depressing lyrics of the rock songs Sam Manzie loved? Or the Christa McAuliffe Middle School for allowing students to solicit door to door...