Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although this is her first attempt at children's fiction, she is the author of African Gamble and No One to Blame, both adventure stories. Boss Chombale is published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, in New York...
Lincoln White, State Department Press Officer, denied the Subcommittee's statement that his department agreed to the publication of the allegations on which the Canadian government places partial blame for Norman's death...
...than the government's; the board is vested with massive authority, but it has used it well and sagely. There are complaints of corruption, and of politicking in the allocation of projects to please powerful sheiks, but on balance, Western observers find far more to praise than to blame. It took political courage (and a strong hand) to concentrate on long-range projects rather than on quick handouts in a land where the majority of the people live in mud huts and share the poverty of the Middle East...
...observed some exotic marriage customs, including the blissful servitude of Oriental wives. Said she: "I now see why American women lose their husbands. The Asians sure know how to hold on to theirs. Marriage in the United States today is a highly unsatisfactory business, and American women are to blame...
King Radio. Already complaints are heard that U.S. calypso with its own topical allusions (e.g., "Don't blame Elvis for wiggling his pelvis," and "Happy Ireland has this to say: De Valera is here to stay") is corrupting a fine old tradition, just as oldtime jazz lovers thought big-band, arranged jazz was a sad decline from the old, improvised New Orleans roughhouse. In fact, few of the current U.S. calypso performers could compete with King Radio, a little one-eyed Trinidadian who is fondly remembered for his pithy self-portrait...