Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malchiel's mind was the fate that had befallen his relatives in Hungary. A bent, grief-stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding out who had betrayed them. Last year, after poring through mountains of yellowed records, he pointed the finger of blame at Rudolf (now Israel) Kastner, by then a citizen of Israel himself, a promising politico in the Mapai Party and an assistant to Cabinet Minister Dov Joseph...
McCarthy knew that his resolution had no chance of passage. Joe wanted to make headlines and let his motion die quietly in committee. Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had other plans. He rushed the resolution through the committee to the floor, where he mimicked McCarthy, saying that Joe would blame "the striped-pants boys from the State Department" if the resolution did not come to a vote. Then Johnson made it his own weapon: "The issue before the Senate is a very simple one. It is whether the President of the United States shall be sent to the Big Four...
...engineer, I place the blame for the shortage on low pay. While the starting rate offered at colleges is high, progress thereafter is slow. Only a few specialists, due to demand shifts, can command salary ranges that are common to executives, salesmen and owners of small businesses. My work requires less effort but pays more, and offers more freedom than when I was an engineer. In addition, I do not have to live in a dirty industrial town...
Author Duggan has come to unbury Caesar, not to praise or blame him. It takes some digging. Shakespeare casually sketched in the great Roman in his tragedy and pivoted his play around the character of the tormented liberal, Brutus...
Your accusation that Stanton's group has "deliberately caused the unemployment of 18,000 workers" achieves the result you desire in portraying the textile manufacturers as a vicious, irresponsible bunch. You might reflect that the workers themselves (or their union) are 50 percent to blame...