Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present time," says Teller, "I find myself unhappily in a situation of being given certainly too much credit and perhaps too much blame for what has happened. Yet, I feel that the development of the hydrogen bomb should not divide those who in the past have argued about it, but rather should unite all of us who, in a close or distant way, by work or by criticism, have contributed toward its completion. Disunity of the scientists is one of the greatest dangers for our country...
...Siamese politics, took over as Premier and charged that Pridi himself was responsible for the King's murder. (Pridi has since turned up in Peking, leading a "Free Thai" movement blessed by the Communists.) In the years that followed, successive courts of inquiry tried to fix the blame for the King's death on other guilty parties to no positive avail...
Each party's Deputies weigh the exact amount of support they can afford to give a government to acquire credit and avoid blame with their followings, whether to keep it in by abstention, to vote for it without joining it, to join it but criticize it, or to join on condition that the party gets a choice ministry...
...customarily lets his party leader deposit his vote. By judiciously mixing "yeas," "nays" and "abstains," a party leader can calculate just what degree of approval to render a policy, how to rebuke a Premier with an insultingly small majority, how to bring him down without taking the blame. If the leader needs more time to assess the situation, he simply drops in duplicate ballots for several Deputies, which forces a recount. Before every important vote, the Assembly adjourns so that each party can decide on the "dosage," at which the Radicals are the admitted masters...
Britain last week decided to pin its jetliner hopes on the Comet. On the heels of a final report placing the blame for two Comet I crashes off Italy on metal fatigue, de Havilland announced that it will go ahead with construction of the Comet II and III. They will have such improvements as thicker skins, oval instead of rectangular windows, to correct the faulty design that caused the Comet I to explode in midair. De Havilland set no delivery dates, but the first plane will probably not be ready before...