Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Libs. The day after his blunt, well-prepared St. Louis speech, Foster Dulles had a press conference at his Washington office. He led off with another well-prepared policy statement, again fixing the blame on the Russians for Germany's continued division. But when one reporter asked him what he thought about the German elections (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Secretary started ad-libbing. A defeat of Christian Democrat Konrad Adenauer, said Dulles flatly, would be "disastrous " for both Germany and the cause of German unity...
...major auto races, Nuvolari won 72, could blame most of his defeats on car failure. He took every big European race at least once-the Grand Prix, Le Mans, the Mille Miglia. Superstitious, he liked always to have a hunchback friend nearby when he raced, for good luck. He always wore the same yellow sweater, blue pants and tricolored scarf. Italians said of Nuvolari, as they had long before said of their spellbinding violinist, Paganini. that he had "a pact with the devil." This belief was strongly supported by Nuvolari's chief European rival, Achille Varzi...
...gathering dust in pigeonholes for years. One of the most urgent economic problems concerns Massachusetts' migrating manufacturers. Herter is well aware that New England is in economic straits because much of her industry has been moving to other parts of the country. But he has not placed the blame entirely on immutable economic forces and waited for Washington to provide relief. Recently, he set up a Department of Commerce and Industry to assist Massachusetts industry in a program of self-improvement, encourage outside companies to move to the state and restore some semblance of industrial leadership...
...consumer goods" as "our main task." He pledged to increase the ''sales to the population" of cars, refrigerators, radio and TV sets. "We have every possibility," he said, in what was strange talk for a Communist, "to produce . . . smart clothes and elegant footwear." He did not blame Russian consumers for preferring the better finish and "exterior appearance" of foreign goods, "to the shame of the workers of industry." He spoke of the "justifiable reproaches of the workers" at the way the housing program is "still being carried out badly" and new houses are "carelessly finished...
Most of all. it keeps them off a spot: in the 1954 election, the Republicans will not be able to blame the Democrats for blocking an Eisenhower program...