Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your issue of July 13, you inferred that I was engaging in a revolt against the leadership of Lyndon Johnson. That was not how I felt about it. He is the ablest majority leader in the history of the Senate. Don't blame me because I tried to persuade Johnson to do things my way. He persuades me to do them his way often enough...
...surprise announcement near week's end that, after his tour of industrial centers in the Urals and Siberia this week, he is planning to make a four-day visit to satellite Poland on the way back to the U.S. In a sense, Khrushchev had himself to blame for Nixon's decision to visit Poland. Nixon had asked for permission to fly across Siberia and visit the Pacific port of Vladivostok, returning to the U.S. by way of Alaska, but the Kremlin vetoed that plan. After that, Nixon decided to accept a longstanding offer from the government of Communist...
...more than three months ago. G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleck, coming from a White House conference, called the bill "a diluted version of a watered-down bill," thus fired the opening shot in the battle to force the Democratic majority in Congress to pass a strong bill or take the blame for none...
...favorite argument for dictators is that they impose order and thus smooth the way for improvements, but in 20 years of Francisco Franco, the Spanish economy has seen precious little improvement. Partly to blame were the aftermath of Spain's ruinous Civil War, the international war that followed, and the long years of political isolation. But the rest lay in Franco's inept administering, in Spain's archaic economic system, and perhaps in those national qualities described by a 19th century Spanish statesman: "I do not know where we are going, but I do know this-that...
...passages. For example, the first two acts make real sense only if one assumes a homosexual relationship between Bertram and Parolles; yet the last half of the play precludes this situation. Until I am convinced that the inconsistencies do in fact agree, I am rash enough to put the blame squarely on Shakespeare...