Word: onus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farm Bill. Comment: Still upon Congress lies the onus of not voting special taxes to meet special farm subsidies ($225,000,000 extra this year...
...Jews . . . have been freed from the onus of their own inferior elements. We have divested them of their morons. , . . They have had to learn that a Jew who is to survive must do what he does supremely well, whether in the realms of commerce, politics, science or scholarship. . . . Their involuntarily eugenic regime has been partly responsible for the astounding frequency with which they produce men of genius. . . . * "Why, then, have Jews been so constantly the objects of hatred on the part of their fellow men? ... If they are too clever for us and contrive to beat us in nearly every...
John is a powerful blocker. He captained the undefeated Freshman team last year. He brings with him a bevy of enthusiastic other young Sophomores who aren't way up on linesse but are on natural ability and enthusiasm. The onus is on John, and he looks like the guy who may be able to bear up under...
...streets of Cambridge, and a few parking signs transferred from one side of the road to the other, nothing very catastrophic ever takes place, unless Yard Cops or Cambridge police loose their heads and provoke the mob. This is just what happened Monday night, and this time the onus of the blame must go to the blue-coated minions of the officious Cambridge Police Force...
...down in bureaucratic entanglements. The power, and sometimes the willingness, is lacking, to cut these knots. There is a strong tendency for a minor dean to indulge in the game of passing the buck, and, instead of dealing evenly and directly with all his students, to shift the onus of making difficult decisions over to other people, perhaps to that mysterious body known as the Administrative Board. In view of the fact that much of a dean's effectiveness depends on the position of respect or disrespect in which the undergraduates hold him, it might be well to give...