Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colleges must bear some blame, says Tuttle. Most states require recommendations from the colleges of would-be teachers, but in Ohio, 23 of 39 teacher training schools reported that English department heads are not consulted in making recommendations for English certification...
...House, after complicated wrangling, scheduled a vote this week on the Kennedy-Ives labor bill (which neither party likes). Speaker Rayburn set the vote to shift blame for inaction on the bill from Democratic shoulders to Republican, i.e., he would blame the G.O.P. when a motion to suspend rules and take up Kennedy-Ives failed (as expected) to carry a two-thirds vote. To keep blame where it is now, Republicans introduced a new labor bill, prepared to vote against Kennedy-Ives, figured the new bill was a better explanation for doing so. ¶ Indiana's caveman Senator William...
Lately Saigon newspapers, alarmed at the rot mortality rate, have urged parents to drive their children less harshly, play down the necessity of remaining daus. Educators argue that much of the blame for failures must be laid to crowded classrooms and ill-educated teachers. Happily for future rots, the government is planning alternatives to suicide: vocational schools and schools for social service...
N.A.M. surely deserved some blame, but the Democrats would most regret the failure. Labor might be relieved; "You can say we're not sorry it failed," commented one labor official. But the U.S. as a whole had been deeply stirred by McClellan's revelations of corruption in Big Labor, might at election time wonder why a Democratic-controlled Congress had not done something about it. The man to ask was Democrat Sam Rayburn, 45-year House veteran, who has wielded his gavel too long and ruled the House too well to botch a legislative job accidentally...
...that once promising baby, television, moves straight from infancy into senility," adds TV Writer Dale Wasserman, the writers themselves must bear the brunt of the blame. "Sometimes I dream of a truly controversial play-oh, say, one in defense of intolerance. A fine case could be, made. Think of the fun of galvanizing the sleepy, postprandial audience, goading it into sitting up and saying: 'What? What was that?' But this demands extraordinary effort. Thinking takes work . . . Thus the quick-and-lucrative looks better every...