Word: scapegoat
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...judgment was harsh. It was also measured. It made clear that the U.S. was not hunting a scapegoat for a defeat. The report of the President's five-man investigating commission told finally how the disaster occurred at Hawaii (see cols. 1-2) and it placed the blame, for "dereliction of duty," squarely upon Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter C. Short, the commanders on the spot...
...last week gave the people of the U.S. satisfaction for Pearl Harbor. Long after the last blaze at Pearl Harbor had been doused, masses of smoke still billowed on cinema screens, the pictures of wreckage spread angry disaster across newspapers. There was no public cry for a scapegoat, but the nation wanted: 1) to know why the bombing attack had been permitted to happen; 2) to be reassured that it would not happen again...
...Western Desert, had suffered a "serious overstrain," had been replaced by Major General Neil Methuen Ritchie eight days after Britain's Libyan offensive was launched. This may have been an admission that General Cunningham's battle tactics* had failed. It was providing history with a scapegoat for the immediate failure of the British forces to clean the Axis from Libya...
...Chief scapegoat was a youthful Triestino named Antonio Skuka. Judge Tringali-Casanuova made no bones about the fact that the trial was a witch hunt. Because Italian law holds prisoners guilty until they are proved innocent, it was his job to see they were not proved innocent. According to Giornale d'ltalia, "the ability of the President [Tringali-Casanuova] who questioned him [Skuka] rigorously made him [Skuka] contradict himself...
...victim was Carolina Aluminum Co., which was ordered to reduce its deliveries of firm power to nearby Duke Power Co., stop drawing down reservoir water, in effect keep its power for itself. To help explain the South's dire straits, FPC had already turned to an old Government scapegoat, Aluminum Co. of America (Carolina Aluminum's parent). Alcoa, said FPC, had too long relied on cheap seasonal dump power. Smart management in peace, this practice now meant that Alcoa had to drain 150,000 kw. from other customers to keep producing through what used to be its slack...