Word: scapegoat
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Drexler said the Review was trying tofind a scapegoat for the incident. "I hope it'snot the case that an editor placed the quote, butthe institution is responsible...
...however, the pressure on Gorbachev to do something dramatic is greater than ever. In parliament, Abel Aganbegyan, one of Gorbachev's favorite economists, asserted that "the economic situation in the country is catastrophic." The leading scapegoat for the troubles is Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, whose own proposed remedy is a go-slow package that preserves much of the center's control over the economy. Led by Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov, some 40,000 demonstrators marched in the capital last week demanding Ryzhkov's resignation. The parliament of the Russian Republic, which accounts for half the Soviet Union's population, seconded...
...State Department there were suspicions that the Administration's preferred scapegoat might be Ambassador April Glaspie, who left Baghdad for Washington the day before the invasion. At a meeting with Saddam on July 25 she told the Iraqi President that George Bush "personally wants to expand and deepen the relationship with Iraq." She assured him that "we don't have much to say about Arab-Arab differences, like your border differences with Kuwait. All we hope is that you solve those matters quickly...
...diarist, a gung-ho U.S. Army officer during the Vietnam War; then a professor of science at Tarkington, a college for dyslectics in New York State; then briefly the warden of a prison for blacks into which the college is transformed; and finally, in the year 2001, the scapegoat defendant after a prison breakout...
...applaud the response of the Kirkland House masters and feel that this man should not be used as a scapegoat. There are alarmingly many Harvard students who need to learn that the word "gay" is offensive when you use it to mean you don't like your teaching fellow...