Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another time and climate, Washington's hoary old dodge-the-blame game might have been amusing. But last week Democrats and Republicans were playing the game for all it was worth over the tragic demise of hardfisted, desperately needed labor legislation. In another part of the capital, Arkansas' John McClellan and his Senate investigating subcommittee continued to document graft, corruption and outright racketeering that led repeatedly to the nation's biggest unions, e.g., the powerful Teamsters, whose boss Jimmy Hoffa is deep in a plan to organize all U.S. transportation. In the face of such evidence there...
Almost no one east of the Rockies needs to be told that summer 1958 has been a season of abnormal rain, overcast skies and generally cooler temperatures, but last week meteorologists were ready to fix the blame. Principal culprit: the band of planetary winds that flow eastward across the North American continent at 10,000 to 40,000 ft. The planetary winds ordinarily stay far north in summer, allowing warm air to flow up freely from the South. But this summer, for reasons unknown, the winds have veered far southward into the U.S. middle, dragging with them cold northern...
...long time, I feel that President Chamoun may be ambitious-all politicians are-but he stands for Lebanese independence. Chamoun aligned himself with the West because he knew what his critics were up to, and it was the only way to save his country. We shouldn't blame him now for befriending...
Network officials lay much of the blame on the obvious scapegoat: the recession. Late in hitting television (billings were actually up 13% for the first five months of 1958), the recession is now making many a sponsor juggle his advertising dollars, e.g., both Ford and Chrysler are cutting TV expenditures. In addition, some sponsors seem to be disenchanted about the selling power of even top-ranked shows. Chrysler is killing Climax!, and General Electric is switching from Cheyenne, a front-runner in most Nielsen ratings last year, to the new drama Man with a Camera (who uses G.E. flashbulbs...
...wide learning and sea experience, included in the volume much philosophy, literature, nautical, scientific and other material that few readers can hope to understand well. His vocabulary, in many places, is beyond secondary school experience ..." The adapter continues fair-mindedly: "Neither you nor Melville is to blame for this." In a separate aside to the teacher, the editor advises that "in the original, Moby Dick is shrouded in symbolism and mysticism; [it] became an outlet for the author, who poured into it vituperative venom conditioned by his personal life. Perhaps this shadowy symbolism lends to the greatness of the novel...