Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese authorities haggled over the apportionment of blame and indemnity, the people of Japan anxiously watched the progress of their newly famed invalids. Most of the Dragon's crew responded to blood transfusion and antibiotics, but Radioman Kuboyama, who reportedly had a medical history of liver trouble, was not so lucky. Early last month, after seemingly recovering only to relapse again, he fell into a coma. Three weeks ago he revived slightly, but last week, as two doctors and his devoted family kept vigil, Aikichi Kuboyama died...
...whether you blame the law on the growing conformity around the country or on the attempt of worried legislators to fight indoctrination without understanding basic issues, it remains that the Alabama legislature did pass Act 888, and it remained on the books almost a year. There can be no sharper warning for alert citizenship than this...
...upon itself, seeking refuge in the collective sympathy of its own kind. This attitude produces a result more subtle than a refusal to testify and is insidious because of this subtlety. It is always easier to conform than to take an individual stand, and now it is easy to blame conformity on the so-called "climate of fear." University administrators, men of the academic world themselves, say that they would not fire this or that professor were it not for the dangerous publicity they would incur by retaining him. Condemning the public and public opinion, yet capitulating to it, these...
...blame? Generously-for he was not a Vargas man, and became Vargas' Vice President only through a whim of politics-Café Filho said that "it is not to the point now to investigate origins or guilt." But the disastrous errors were, in fact, made by Vargas to keep the political support of 1) electricity consumers, 2) planters who demanded the high fixed price that, as an unintended result, forced coffee revenues down, 3) credit-hungry businessmen, and 4) wage-boosting labor...
...projects,* said he, there were windfall profits as a result of watered-up mortgage loans, insured by the Federal Housing Administration under the Housing Act's Section 608. McKenna put the blame for the skulduggery directly on ex-FHA Assistant Commissioner Clyde L. Powell, whose gaudy gambling career put the FBI on his trail last year and started the whole investigation (TIME, July...