Word: blamelessness
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...ridiculous. Young people can understand. The real problem is the older generation's inability to teach our youth the hows and whys of contraception. Because we Americans find our children's sexuality embarrassing, we would rather accept the plight of unmarried teen-age mothers-and hold ourselves blameless...
...world. So you show your power against someone who can't retaliate." Psychologist Paul Schauble, another counselor at the university, says there has been "perhaps a 10%" increase in violent squabbles among couples seeking counseling over the past two years. Not all the women, he says, are blameless victims of brutes: some are needlers who figure that the man cannot retaliate, and others provoke violence as a way of breaking through male indifference...
...Government should use all appropriate means to defend and extend the frontiers of freedom everywhere. These include private persuasion, public condemnation and trade restrictions. In some cases we must provide economic or military aid to a besieged ally whose human rights record is not blameless. At the same time we should encourage that ally to correct its injustices. To withhold vital aid in the name of human rights and thereby help pave the way for a far more repressive regime would be a tragedy...
Lefever's bitter resignation letter to Reagan began: "I am blameless of the charges and innuendoes against my integrity and my compassion. I do not wish any longer to put up with the kind of suspicion and character assassination that some of my adversaries have used to besmirch my name...
...served American Presidents since Hoover, but it was the symbolism of the thing that mattered. Carter took the oath of office in a $175 business suit and spurned a limousine in order to lead his Inaugural parade up Pennsylvania Avenue on foot. He went for an image of blameless frugality, a presidency in a cardigan sweater: no pomp, just folks. He even brought his relative Hugh Carter ("Cousin Cheap") all the way from Georgia to crack down on White House extravagances such as office TV sets and IBM Selectric typewriters...