Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even if it must take some loss, the Coop should concentrate on student service rather than piling up profits. No one can blame them for being understocked when courses blossom with unexpected popularity, but too many students in too many courses have had to wait for reorders to excuse the Coop's poor foresight...
Some British newsmen blame the limited British coverage of the U.S. on the newsprint shortage. It follows, they insist, since British papers have so little space they can only print the sensational news from the U.S. But every time paper rationing is eased, British dailies use the extra newsprint to add more entertainment and feature news...
Stillman merely identified the ailment as "gastronomic" and refused to place the blame for the sudden outburst of stomach trouble on any particular cause...
...initials stood for Harold Lloyd, filmdom's famed funnyman, but this time Funnyman Lloyd was not joking-at least not out loud. At 58, he has turned serious part-time artist, and he was about to hold his first one-man show. No one could blame him for being protective about the 40-odd paintings cached away in one of the bathrooms of his 22-room Beverly Hills mansion...
...with a social consciousness that was quickly to fade from his later novels, The Shipwrecked is written in the vibrato style that has become Greene's trademark. Where his more mature books, like The Heart of the Matter, treat human weakness in religious terms, The Shipwrecked tends to blame it on a decaying society. But in its unpretentious, entertaining way, it proves again that Graham Greene could hardly be dull if he tried...