Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occurred to him that this was something of his own fault-"At home I hardly knew who my Congressman was." If he and his business friends were to get the kind of smart, vigorous representation they wanted, they would have to do something about...
...attempt to put the finger of blame on any one or any thing for this predicament is either impossible or difficult. You might find fault with Hindustan climatology, and carefully show the effects of the monsoon rain on the caloric intake of the Bengali peasant; there is some relation. Or you might find the Hindu religion, totalling 65 percent of the population, a hindrance to progress in its rigid caste definitions. Then, there are always the British, for it was through their policy of laissez-faire that little or no social advancement was achieved in India...
...final evaluation of the 70-day hearings, the Democratic majority found the military to blame, found no fault in the planning or actions of the Roosevelt Administration. In a minority report Republican Senators Ferguson (Michigan) and Brewster (Maine) blamed Franklin Roosevelt and Secretaries Hull, Stimson and Knox, but necessarily found the military commanders were also slow of head and foot...
...does sail for the States (where he wrote most of his 23 books, and where he is still living and working, at 66, as a book reviewer for the New York Sun), McFee ends his story. When he daydreams of gimbal lamps and fiddley gratings, he illustrates his abiding fault: maundering. But when he describes a desperate journey on a sinking ship, he exemplifies his talent for hard factuality in a handsome style...
...encouraged to look where he liked. Last week, for the United Press, he wrote a 1,700-word bread & butter letter, full of praise for America's splendid highways and damnation for U.S. newspapers. Obviously, if this great country was not getting along with his great country, the fault was America's Excerpts...