Word: onus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does, for Tories quite openly lack Churchill's enthusiasm for an election soon. Realistically, they recognize that they have few alternative solutions to the problems of meat and coal and no radically different foreign policy to propose. What is more, they are in no hurry to bear the onus which the Socialists must now assume for the higher taxes and dislocations of rearmament. Many would just as soon wait for the plum to fall without having to shake the tree...
...Paul Douglas had lost his brave battle to get rid of millions of dollars of pork-barrel items. The only effective gesture at economizing was an amendment directing the Administration to shave 10%, some way, from all non-defense items, for an estimated saving of $525 million. Thus the onus of specific economies would fall on the Administration, while Congress took the credit...
...fact that the prices we ranchers receive have dropped about 30% in the past year, but . . . there seems to be a whole ambush of Ethiopians in the woodpile somewhere between here and the tables at Romanoff's. Maybe if some of you who have heaped the whole onus of beef prices on our heads for the past several years would look into the devious byways of the trade, cowmen could once again go to town in their working clothes without taking the risk of being tarred & feathered with some unpleasant form of meat substitute...