Word: onus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onus for suspicion, tension and the U.S. arms buildup on the U.S.S.R., for its attempts to export Communism. Nixon told the Soviet people that they work one day out of every four to produce armaments...
...week's end Western spokesmen said that the conference was on a "day-to-day basis," might break up any time unless Gromyko offered some sign of being ready to negotiate. But the fact seemed to be that Herter & Co. were not only reluctant to accept the propaganda onus of ending the conference, but also shrank from the prospect that a breakdown of the negotiations might spur the Russians to some kind of action against West Berlin (whose Mayor Willy Brandt turned up at Geneva last week...
...idea of 'Compact' determines a basic change in the relationship. It takes away from the very basis of the relationship--the nature and onus of colonialism. It cannot be changed or revoked unilaterally," he continued...
...budget is something else again. President Eisenhower seized the initiative by presenting a balanced budget in January, and the Democratic 86th Congress has never quite made up its mind whether to accept the political onus of unbalancing it. On virtually all the legislation handled so far, the 86th has started off as though prepared to go all the way in upsetting the budget, then had second thoughts and trimmed the spending to something fairly close to Administration requests. Just before Congress recessed last week, House Speaker Sam Rayburn let it be known that he was getting tired of the whole...
...leaning toward the theory that Moscow never wanted to stop testing, that it proclaimed a unilateral halt last March without the slightest intention of making the cessation permanent, and that the whole objective of Soviet diplomacy in this area is to avoid a test ban without assuming the onus for so doing...