Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thousand Deaths." Almost as much as sponsor pressure, the telecasters can blame themselves for playing Frankenstein to the rating monster. It was the networks and the performers who began using the advertiser's yardstick to beat the drums of publicity, plugging ratings from whichever system made them look best and playing up rating feuds, e.g., CBS's Ed Sullivan v. NBC's Steve Allen on Sunday at 8 p.m. They made the rating seem even more potent than it really is-and believed the illusion themselves. Since NBC began trailing in the ratings, it has sensibly...
...satellites could blame their sorry economic plight directly on Russia, which conducts 1/5 of its foreign trade with Iron Curtain countries-mostly to its own advantage. Reversing the usual form of colonial exploitation, in which colonies are used as sources of raw materials, Russia feeds the satellites raw materials, takes the finished products they manufacture. Czechoslovakia, for example, did 5.5 billion crowns ($770,000,000) worth of trade with Russia in 1955, giving engineering products in return for metals, petroleum, rubber, timber...
...Foreign Service Officer as a competent and candid reporter of the political, economic, and cultural activities of the country to which he is assigned is his most important duty. It is this phase of his activities which has been most severely damaged. It is not, however, enough to blame McCarthyism for the decline in accurate reporting from the field. The blame lies also in the Dullesian personality and on the Secretary of State's attitude toward policy-making...
Following Moscow's cue, the Chinese Reds put the blame for these deplorable tendencies on Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. And when it came to pinpointing the nature of Tito's heresy, the Chinese Communists did not hesitate to make a charge that no Russian leader currently dares to make in public. "In our opinion," said the Central Committee, "Stalin's mistakes take second place to his achievements . . . [Tito] took up a wrong attitude when he set up so-called Stalinism, the Stalinist course and Stalinist elements as objects of attack . . . This can only lead...
...lively, irrepressible spirits," went to bed with a stomachache. Slowly, the symptoms multiplied: vomiting, difficulty in breathing, sharper attacks of pain followed by extreme lassitude. The doctor thought it was a virus infection. Another doctor diagnosed infectious hepatitis. Stomach X-rays suggested that a small tumor might be to blame. Nothing to worry about, said the doctors, but they advised an operation...