Word: scapegoat
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...strong in his support of Syngham Rhee '10, President of the South Korean government. He maintained that Rhee is merely being used as a scapegoat in the present struggle. Rhee was elected, Rim said, by popular vote because the people backed him. Now an unfair attempt is being made to place all the blame upon his shoulders...
...under pride & prejudice. To a vocal majority, deposed President Paul Wagner, the young whirlwind who came triumphantly on the scene two years ago, was now the self-seeking villain of the piece who had richly earned his comeuppance. To a dwindling minority who still supported Wagner, he was the scapegoat in a situation he had worsened but not made. On orders from an economy-minded board of trustees, Wagner had abruptly fired one-third of the faculty this spring (TIME, March 9). But in the heat of debate, there was now no agreement even on the primary question of whether...
...forcibly collected from the peasants, put in a central pool at Tirana. Peasants will then buy back food for their own use under the same rationing conditions and at the same high prices as city dwellers. By making Hoxha personal sponsor of the measure, the Russians made him the scapegoat of enraged farmers. Russian food policy, confiscation of property and police terror have made his regime the most hated in Albania's history...
...movie treats Fagin consistently as an individual (as Dickens did), never as a group symbol or scapegoat; it is obviously not anti-Semitic by design, and few are likely to find it anti-Semitic in effect. Attempts to suppress it, raising the issue of precensorship v. a free screen, brought many Jews to the picture's defense. The keepers of Hollywood's Production Code finally withdrew their ban last February, contented themselves with the gesture of cutting out ten minutes of Fagin's close-ups and profiles...
Overnight, the storm blew into a hurricane. Those who before had been inclined to overlook Wagner's minor errors, suddenly began blowing them up to mammoth size. Pro-Wagner forces protested that he was being made the scapegoat for the trustees; anti-Wagner forces replied with demands for his head. Soon partisans of both sides were unable to see anything in the case but angry blacks & whites. Old friends passed on the street without a word and the college chaplain despairingly admitted: "I never knew that so much evil could flow." Wagner himself, showing the strain of the campaign...