Word: scapegoat
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Physiologists are even changing their minds about what hunger is. Stomach contractions, the old scapegoat, do not explain hunger, because a man gets hungry even when his whole stomach has been removed. At Harvard's School of Public Health, Biochemist Jean Mayer has found evidence that "feeling hungry" depends on the amount of sugar in the blood. He says this goes up after eating, and the eater no longer feels hungry. But a few hours later it goes down, and he wants food. (In diabetics, the changes are more complicated...
...Voice was formerly scapegoat of a blind penchant for economy, it is now target for the indiscriminate applicators of Americanism. Presumably, Congressional investigations suggest legislation, but the only concrete proposal to issue from McCarthy's committee is that all works by "subversives" or "sympathetic to the Communist cause's should not be considered as Voice material...
Meanwhile, Carl Snavely, unemployed president of the American Football Association, criticized college leaders yesterday for making the coach the scapegoat of the game's abuses...
...Israel, the leading coalition party, Mapai, declared the "Jews were a scapegoat to cover difficulties within the country." Meanwhile, the pro-Russian, Communist and Mapam parties who together poll about 11 percent of the votes, were "shocked and confused...
Frye called the issues of the Suez Canal and the Sudan a political blind and the British a traditional scapegoat" by which attention is diverted from domestic difficulties...