Word: disclaimer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These demonstrations of affection greatly bolster Franco's hand in dealing with his own people and with the outside world. Although President Truman and the State Department disclaim all responsibility for such overtures, a goodly number of Congressmen and military leaders backs cooperation with Spain for various strategic, economic, and religious reasons. Motions to include Spain in ECA and the arms program mustered considerable Congressional support...
...Ratner blames our educational system for "The People's Taste." Can any business which is beamed directly at the small fry for two hours of blood, thunder and box tops every weekday afternoon disclaim its role in our educational system...
...intimate knowledge of the checks and balances within the Administration could explain. If the cases against tutorial can be expounded less and less in terms of manpower, it must be explained in terms of someone's unwillingness to spend the money somewhere. The departments, almost to the last, will disclaim any direct responsibility for the cutbacks and will point to budgets that will not allow for expansion in this line. The Administration, from whom all budgets flow--albeit with departmental advice--will counter with claims that once the budget is granted, each department has a free hand...
...Labor Government showed little desire to press damage charges against squatters or ask heavy sentences for the five Communists arrested on conspiracy charges during the squat. Meanwhile, the Communist Party line had become almost as occult as the Indian rope trick: to disclaim responsibility for inciting the squatters, while claiming credit for all progress made in the housing situation...
This attitude was not confined to U.S. scientists. Wrote the science editor of London's News Chronicle: "The cataclysm of Hiroshima has shocked the scientists into revolt. . . . Atomic energy [is] being used now as a pawn of power politics. They [the scientists] do not disclaim responsibility; they insist upon taking it. . . . They want a positive voice in public affairs...