Word: scapegoat
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...political situation is such that Jeff runs a fair chance of losing his job whether he lies low or takes action. Worse still, a Negro named Sam Brinson, of whom Jeff is very fond, has been grabbed out of jail to be scapegoat if Sonny is not found. Jeff is reasonably sure Sonny is innocent; he knows Sam is. That he will sacrifice Sonny's life to his own political safety is, of course, a mere regretful reflex; at the same time he tries to find Sam at the risk...
...Cabinet, though by now it would not have minded accepting them, realized that it could not without dissolving itself as well. But it could not back down on its avowed plan without trading a scapegoat. And so, next morning, Admiral Nomura announced that the ship had been sunk at last, but that there had been one casualty: Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, who said it was all his fault...
Perpetual Scapegoat...
...disciples of Moses' monotheism, know history and are hardly surprised at the symptoms of present society. Nonsurprising, but tragical indeed, is the lot of a perpetual scapegoat...
...main inducement lay in the fact that Baton Rouge, unlike New Orleans, has always resisted the Long machine and its heirs. If Dr. Smith has any idea he may be in line for a scapegoat's role, he knows a scapegoat's safety varies directly with his distance from the abattoir. All Dr. Smith would say in his own defense was that he had been trying to do something for the university...