Word: scapegoat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...since mid-November have steel operations been at 62% of capacity. The steel rate, after a brief stand somewhere between 50 and 55, ended last week at 48.6%, began this week at 47.8%. Optimists looked for a scapegoat, found it in the coal tie-up. Typical headline: "Coal Situation Retards Steel Operation Rate...