Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the Democrats in control of Congress, he is in a fine position to fight the Old Guard Republicans, i.e., if his program is defeated, the blame will be laid to the Democrats and not to G.O.P. intraparty strife...
...Power to Blame. As U.S. readers of the Russian mind dove into the news of Malenkov's descent, interpretations rippled further and further from the central point. Did the change portend a reversal of the post-Stalin "soft" line? Was it a struggle between "liberal" Communists favoring consumer goods, and "tough" Communists relying on terror and bent on war? Or was it a purely personal struggle for power...
...last question led back to the gist of the news. Malenkov and Khrushchev had both been on both sides of the planning issues, and both had been involved in recent failures for which Malenkov took the blame. Since lines could not be drawn in terms of political issues, personal rivalry was suggested as the explanation. But personal struggle for power goes on in all nations. Why among the Communists does it take the form of upheaval, purge, false confession? Why can't they, nearly 40 years after their revolution, get their power struggle channeled into the institutions of orderly...
...world found comfort in the fact that the evacuation had been made in peace, and found reassurance in the unchallenged display of U.S. might. But the U.S. Navy's fighting men took little satisfaction in what they regarded as a reverse operation. Admiral Sabin did not blame the Chinese Reds for staying at home: "It would have been a stupid thing to pay in blood and lives for something they were going to get for nothing...
Most book-business insiders blame the shop owner himself for his plight. His chief drawback: no business sense. Among those who think so is Chicago's Carl Kroch, president of the largest independent bookstore in the U.S. Says Bookseller Kroch, who has just spent $500,000 on refurbishing his own flourishing Chicago store on Wabash Avenue: "Too many people-little old ladies-think bookselling is a nice thing, so they start off with too little capital and a tiny stock...