Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June and Gypsy waited for the hearing to begin on June's complaint that she had been bilked in a real estate deal. But the smog won out, and the court was recessed. "In this kind of weather," said Gypsy, surveying the shirtsleeved crowd, "I don't blame anyone for wanting to peel...
...night builders and obsolete housing codes that often worked to restrict better homes were partly to blame for such conditions. But the major responsibility lay in Government appraisal practices, which set the standards for the industry, and which Mason has worked to change. Rules for figuring mortgages are often drawn in terms of the cheapest material available. Thus, as far as getting a mortgage is concerned, it makes little difference whether a builder puts in a 20-year furnace for $350 or a $275 job that wears out after five years. The builder is free to add quality features...
...bond market is still in the throes of a shake-out that Wall Streeters compare to the '29 crash in stocks. With the benefit of hindsight, bond experts lay the blame on Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. Eager to stretch out the public debt, i.e., lengthen the maturing period of Government bonds, Anderson brought out medium and long-term bond issues in June, a poor time because the market was at the top of a speculative binge that had boosted the price of U.S. bonds (TIME, June 30). Many, gambling on a continued rise, bought the new bonds with nothing...
After Twelve Years. Who was to blame for the loss of an estimated 500 lives-beyond those taken by the Japs' torpedoes? The Navy's high command figured it must have been Captain Charles B. McVay 3rd, respected, competent commanding officer of Indianapolis, and took two unprecedented steps: it court-martialed an officer for losing his ship to the enemy and called the enemy (in the person of the sub commander who sank Indy) to testify against him. McVay was convicted but with a recommendation of clemency. The conviction was soon set aside...
...drama of the Russian Revolution has usually been annotated by one of the actors, the actors' friends, or the jilted stage-door Johnnies who haunt the theater of history. Blame, guilt, hatred, self-accusation and self-aggrandizement taint most such accounts of revolution. Alan Moorehead's book is different. It is a clear-eyed rendering by an expert reviewer who makes the drama come alive again and establishes some new areas of truth. The ideological burdens the book carries belong to the narrative, not the narrator, and it contains no haunted hindsights...