Word: scapegoat
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...disappearance of their main scapegoat, under indictment for "crimes against the state," threw the congressional committee into a boiling rage. For three days, every spare cop was flung into the chase, and government patrol craft nosed into every cove and inlet along the river coast. But their quarry got away. At week's end, Gainza Paz turned up safe at his mother's estate, 150 miles west of Montevideo...
...scattergun methods which seemed to flush many birds but drop few of them. Some, like Texas' Tom] Connally, dismissed the whole project as "chasing crap-shooters." And many professional crimebusters took a slightly amused view of the committee's melodramatic approach to the Mafia, a scapegoat dear to the hearts of Sunday-supplement writers and students of the devious Dr. Fu Manchu. But no one 'could charge Kefauver with pulling his shots on political grounds: his investigation into the unaccountable wealth of the Democrats' candidate for Cook County sheriff, Police Captain Dan ("Tubbo") Gilbert, unquestionably cost...
...rules requiring warning lights, Assistant County Prosecutor Alex Eber promptly accused the railroad of "criminal negligence," and announced that he would try to indict the Pennsylvania for manslaughter. Snapped Eber: "I don't propose to stand by and permit the Pennsylvania to use the engineer as its scapegoat...
What happens to Langrish after that, in The Image of a Drawn Sword, proves that British Novelist Jocelyn Brooke can create as violent fictional disturbances as anyone now writing in English. Compared to it, his first tense little gothic novel, The Scapegoat (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950), was a mild emotional debauch...
...straw poll, reported two-to-one sentiment against dropping the bomb now. In Quebec, newspapers condemned the bomb as immoral, but the province's outright pacifism of World War II seemed to be gone. If there was a pattern at all, the Canadian tendency was to seek a scapegoat; more often than not it turned out to be U.S. leadership. Many newspapers across the nation splashed the news that Prime Minister Attlee was flying to Washington almost as though the editors were turning to the old country for cautious guidance that the U.S. had failed to provide...