Word: fall-guy
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...chair of the archaeology wing, I am beingpromoted as the fall-guy for complaints againstthe wing," van der Merwe said in the Decemberinterview...
...rulers were loath to set the stage with a crackdown. Some cynics speculated that conservatives plan to use the spasm of protest to claim a new liberal victim, possibly Hu's successor, Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. But a Western diplomat in Beijing disagreed, suggesting that the era of fall-guy politics has ended. Said he: "Can they let another guy go down the tubes, given the growing cynicism of the Chinese people, the concern for human rights outside the country and their need for more foreign investment...
...prove more than a match for Bush in articulating his party's agenda. The next President will find the new majority leader less interested than his predecessor, West Virginia's Robert Byrd, in parliamentary procedures, more skillful in forming coalitions, and equally unwilling to let Congress play a fall-guy role if the President tries to extricate himself from his "read my lips" campaign promises not to raise taxes. Says his friend and mentor Edmund Muskie: "George is a liberal but one who can win the support of many people because he's pragmatic...
...playing each other's parts, or David Blocker's part as Putnam, for all the difference between them. Brady has several good moments later in the play, but most of them when he isn't talking. Only Vernon Blackman manages to convey something over and above Miller's emblematic fall-guy...
Discussing past disarmament talks, Davis stated that Secretary of State Dulles sent Harold Stassen to the London Disarmament Conference as a "fall-guy." Dulles was forced to go through the motions of a conference by aroused public opinion in this country, Davis said...