Word: faulted
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...divisive baby boomer political battles - "the dorm fights of the '60s," he called them - and he had a perfect foil in Hillary Clinton, whose husband had been the first baby boomer President and whose tenure, in the 1990s, had been marked by a heathen contentiousness (most of it the fault of Republican extremists, a generation of showboat demagogues...
...crowd with a speech littered with characteristic digressions. "He's fumbling all over the place," hissed the Governator, unaware that his microphone was switched on. Wags in Westminster have since dubbed Johnson "the Fumbulator." He responds with mock humility: "A man not famed for his eloquence found fault with my delivery and general mastery of public speaking. And these are things I obviously have to overcome...
...believe the rumors that zip around Pakistan in the aftermath of one of the country's depressingly regular outbreaks of violence, it's all America's fault. Or India's. Or Israel's. Or it's those Afghan-based militia who keep sneaking across the border. Fueled by cheap cell phone calls and the rise of 24-hour television news channels, gossip about who is to blame for Pakistan's woes runs from the reasonable to the ridiculous...
Maybe, the judge said, Sebuliba's lack of involvement during her pregnancy was Griffin's fault. Said Goulee: "And you say, 'It is his fault, his fault. He is not seeing me when I am having a baby...' On the other hand, you may be denying him or pushing him away. I say to myself, what came first? Your pushing him away? Is that why [he] didn't have a relationship with the child...
...when the bright lights are abruptly turned back on, accompanied by a kooky Korean love song. Scores flash on a digital screen revealing that the killers have lost. The latent tension in the room spontaneously erupts into a cacophony of recriminations. "You **** ! I told you, it's all your fault. You should talk less, and think before you open your mouth. Why are you so stupid? Can you tell me that? No! Then you're even more stupid than I thought you were." Sensing it's only a matter of time before this torrent of expletives, issuing from the mouths...