Word: scapegoat
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...usual everybody wanted a scapegoat -the villain who was to blame for inflation. Leaders of both parties were more interested in nailing down the blame for high prices than in deciding what to do about them. But inflation's effects could not be concealed by any amount of campaign oratory...
...done little to get it off the books, growled at the severity of Hass's penalty and at the hypocrisy of other citizens who vote dry and drink wet. In Wichita, a group of businessmen started a fund to buy a new car for Scapegoat Hass. By this week they had raised more than $800 and formed a club called: "It Could Happen to Me." They hoped that the incident would help Kansas overthrow its 67-year-old prohibition law in an election next November...
...most Hindus no longer participated in the rites of Kali's priests, who dismembered goats (in lieu of human victims), spraying the blood upon worshipers crowded in fields of which Kali was mother, fructifier and scourge. Nevertheless Kali, the Black One, could stand as symbol (or perhaps as scapegoat) for the horror that had walked hand in hand with bright liberty into India...
...world he becomes a heartless butcher, a quick target for civilian public opinion, a perfect scapegoat for the Pentagon's brass hats, easy prey for congressional busybodies making overseas inspection tours. No pleas, no threats will budge Dennis: he is as adamantine of mind as he is agonized of soul. Eventually he is relieved of his command. But at the very end, his successor is won over to his policy...
...inflation mounts and tempers shorten, as world economic and political crises inexorably reduce our already limited avenues of action. The American public nears a state of vengeful pointing and shouts of "J'accuse." Opinion has not yet singled out the scapegoat from the rogues' gallery of Business or Labor, Wheat Speculator or Foreign Sinkhole. But when blame settles on any one group, Americans will be guilty of self-delusion. For just as "get all I can" is an inalienable right of free enterprise, so is our inflation a result of many factors, some avoidable, others not, but all incontestably interrelated...