Word: scapegoat
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...week conducted a lively debate on Britain's high cost of living, while British workers grumbled loudly about its damage to their pay packets. In Italy, where the government has launched an unpopular austerity drive to halt rising prices, the man in the street has found a new scapegoat in la cara vita. And the French, who love to complain, moan relentlessly about la vie chere. In any language, inflation is Europe's foremost economic preoccupation-and the problem that most threatens its extended boom...
...sometimes against the world? But Hochhuth does not stick to this lofty issue. As a German, he lives guiltily with guilt, the knowledge that the Nazi leaders and the people who brought them to power must bear the prime responsibility for what happened to the Jews. He varies the scapegoat theory of history that the Nazis applied in exterminating the Jews and produces not a "hate show" but a "shift the blame show." He does not spare the Germans, but he magnifies what he regards as the complacency, indifference, pettiness, diplomatic maneuvering and overcautious silence of Pius and the church...
...commission's hearing room, she held court for reporters. "I can talk for hours," she said. She insisted that Lee Oswald had been an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency, and that he "had been set up to take the blame" for the Kennedy assassination. He was the scapegoat, she said, mispronouncing it as "scrapgoat." Frequently referring to him in the present tense, she asked: "Who can prove he is not a CIA agent? He isn't going to say he's a CIA agent, and the Government isn't going...
...which the affair had been handled by The Netherlands' government. The nation especially resented seeing popular Queen Juliana humiliated when she first announced that the engagement was off and then had to eat her words. In the lower chamber of Parliament, beleaguered Cabinet ministers eventually found a convenient scapegoat in the government information service, and promised in the future to improve communications between palace and public...