Word: scapegoats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...However, from the resignation it is clear that the Soviet leaders have realized that their agricultural problem is a very serious one." Some Russian experts believe that Malenkov's resignation may have been a cover-up by the government for tits ineffective agricultural policy, with Malenkov serving as a scapegoat...
Speaking at the weekly Harkness coffee hour, Toepfer said that "students tend to vastly overrate the importance of their marks. Employers do not give class standings as much importance as students think they do, but they sometimes use a man's academic record as a convenient scapegoat in place of his religion, looks, poor business connections, or general personality," Toepfer added...
...Scapegoat Needed. As recently as three years ago, Luca was at the top of Rumania's Communist heap-along with homely Foreign Minister Ana Pauker (also purged, demoted, and possibly awaiting trial) and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who is still Premier. But in 1952 the Red regime drastically devalued the Rumanian leu, thus depriving the people of most of their savings. News of the impending devaluation leaked out; party favorites and some others got rid of their old currency ahead of time. As Finance Minister, Luca took the rap. In addition, the regime now needed a villain to blame...
...Jesuit weekly America, at the commencement exercises of the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. "The mind of the nation is becoming troubled, and its nerves are already frayed . . . How else explain the rising mistrust of each other, the roaring bitterness, the ranging of Americans against Americans, the scapegoat hunts, the assault on freedom of opinion, the intolerance of opposition, the increase in calumny, demagoguery, bigotry and smear? I am afraid it is because fear and frustration abound: fear of the unseen death-laden struggle in which we are locked, and frustration at our inability to get directly...
...life in the atomic wilds: "Our experiments have grown so dangerous that we've had to withdraw into regions once inhabited by outlaws. Who knows whether we shan't come to the same sort of end? Captured, lynched, hanged-perhaps society will want to make us the scapegoat for all this damage...