Word: onus
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...labor government, and there can no longer be any doubt that the President proposes to give labor all that they ask for, and perhaps more. ... If [he] wants to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor and purchase his re-election at the expense of the public, the onus for doing so must rest upon...
Lieutenant-General of the Realm Crown Prince Umberto was trying to use the crisis to strengthen the discredited monarchy. Few political parties wanted to share the onus of governing Italy under Allied control during an economic crisis. All were waiting for the north to be liberated. Meanwhile recurrent street fighting between monarchists and republicans -a new thing in Rome-was a grave portent...
...following this tradition, the Junker generals had let the Kaiser go packing when the jig was up, and graciously permitted a new civilian government to bear the onus of defeat. But the Kaiser had not had a Heinrich Himmler, with his SS and Waffen SS, armies within armies, spies and informers, ruthless execution squads...
When Doris later brought up the subject of divorce, Jimmy said: "You know you have no grounds. It is I who have suffered the onus of cruelty after you wrecked my political campaign...." Then, he charged, Mrs. Cromwell confessed adultery by proposing that he divorce her in New Jersey "because you have sufficient grounds." In cold, virtuous tones, Jimmy said he replied: "Gentlemen don't divorce their wives in this country...
...Name. The Marauder never was a dog, but someone had given it a bad name. It bore the double onus of being a floozie, and from the right side of the tracks: the B-26 emerged in 1940 from the highly regarded Glenn Martin plant at Baltimore, Md., but its detractors thought it had been rushed along too fast...