Word: scapegoats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of his security police, Nespoli, began the manhunt full of confidence. At the end of three days he was stumped, and in mortal fear that his failure to find the murderer would mean, literally, his own head. Reluctantly he tried to pin the crime on an innocent scapegoat, a halfwitted girl. When that failed, it was anybody's head. Cassano became a city of pointing fingers...
...schools in recent years have been made by "paid hirelings of organizations whose motives are suspected." He continued, remarking that the normal person shows interest in his schools not by criticizing, but by conferring with the superintendent, school committee, and teachers. As a means of doing away with the "scapegoat" role of modern schools, he suggested that if citizens are given more of a sense of participation in school work they will not respond with attacks, but constructive work...
Soon afterward, naval historians began to doubt Cox's guilt, wondered if he had been made a scapegoat for a sorry U.S. defeat. Arguments in the third lieutenant's favor: the Chesapeake was fresh from refitting, manned by a green crew. Just before she sailed out to meet the Shannon, many of her men were drunk. The court-martial testimony showed that Cox, who was 23, fought his guns bravely until the crews deserted; then, cutlass in hand, he rushed up on deck to repel the boarders. Cox probably did not realize he was in command when...
...professors for "economy" reasons, announced that he had settled his $100,000 libel suit against the college for $50,000, and had withdrawn his $500,000 damage suit against eleven trustees. After both sides agreed to say nothing more, Wagner fired a Parthian shot: "[I was] a scapegoat . . . I carried out the instructions of the board of trustees . . ." Then he announced his new job: executive director of the Ford-sponsored Film Council of America, which produces and distributes educational films...
Faure, well knowing that Acheson has no legal power to commit U.S. troops, murmured evasively: "This news is obviously premature." Last week he found a scapegoat for the news story. His Information Minister called in the news agency's director general, Maurice Negre, 51, and suspended him. The government could do so because it pays more than half the agency's bills...