Word: escapegoat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist, president, businessman, baseball coach, restaurateur, taxi driver--emerges unscathed from a seemingly endless catalogue of embarrassing, boorish, pretentious, dangerous and innocuous lapses and errors Newman records from his over 20 years experience in reporting. There is the actress who told him she hoped she wouldn't be an "escapegoat" if her show failed. There is the political organizer who describes elections as "the quadrennial challenge of giving focus and perspective to the polemics of contending partisans." There is the advertiser's use of such phrases as "B.O."and "unsightly bulge" to induce people to buy deodorants and brassieres...
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