Word: onus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blame seems to fall on a U.S. that, bent on victory, was too single-minded to set realistic conditions for Japan's surrender. In hindsight, acceptance of such conditions might have ended the war, buttressed Asia against the newly strengthened Communists and relieved the U.S. of the onus of having dropped the first atomic bombs-which the Communists have used as a powerful anti-U.S. propaganda point...
Pressing Orders & Fast Talk. Clark was "embarrassed" by another record maker's gift of a ring to him and a necklace and fur piece to his wife (total value: $4,400). But there could be no onus attached to the gift: Clark explained that he had never worn the ring. A freckled, pipe-smoking songwriter named Orville Lunsford told how Clark's subsidiary firms worked. His record All American Boy got a fast ride to the No. 2 position in record sales-but only, he said, after the Mallard Pressing Corp.. one of Clark's interests...
Fadiman's attempt to remove this onus by main force is neither so precisely measured as Eliot's invention nor so massive as the Robert Hutchins-Mortimer Adler set of Great Books. Fadimaa. has drawn up a similar list of 100, but 'he provides only an introductory pep talk about each book's contents and author. If he sounds like a real estate agent when he assures his readers that they may take up to 50 years to complete the plan, it probably does not matter...