Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grant forms volunteer retrainees into close-knit groups of 20 men who spend all their waking and sleeping hours with the same group. Says Grant: "Group living puts pressure on them. Now each is living with 19 others who have the same outlook. His opportunities to blame someone else are minimized. You give him rope, finally make him aware that he's hanging himself." The one essential that all Elliott inmates have in common is their tendency to act out antisocial behavior which most people express in words, or repress within themselves. "Acting-out" problem cases have been regarded...
Emmett-Dunne himself broke the sad news to Maria, and helped assuage her grief. When the official verdict of suicide came through, barrack gossips were quick to blame the suicide on the close friendship of the dead Walters' buddy and wife. But an official army investigator named Sergeant Frank Walters was bothered by the suicide verdict. It was Walters' simple opinion that cocky Sergeant Watters was just not the suicidal type...
...surprisingly high proportion of women can blame infertility on a simple cause, said Milwaukee's Dr. John Dale Owen: they suffer from malnutrition-not eating the right foods, even if they eat enough. A balanced diet including vitamins, minerals and protein eventually helps many women to conceive, presumably by restoring the body's hormone balance so that the master pituitary gland will send the needed stimulus to the reproductive system...
...obviously were chagrined to lose that 116-year-old Grand Challenge Cup, the Russians remembered their political protocol-even when they made their last-minute explanations. "Our boats-we think they came too late," said Manager Vladimir Muchmenko. "No, not too late, but late enough. But we would not blame the strikers, only the situation...
...still beat out Schlitz by 400,000 bbls. last year, slumped 800,000 bbls. from its 1953 peak. Worst of all, most of the loss was to less expensive local beers, a market that Busch has not yet been able to win back. Characteristically, Busch took the full blame. Said he to his stockholders at the annual meeting: "We made what was probably the worst mistake in the company's history. As your president. I take sole responsibility." The upshot: the stockholders so admired his frankness that they asked only a few questions and adjourned...