Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued to prove himself a charming campaigner. During his four-hour train ride back from Chicago, he stopped at station after station, talked to crowds in a broiling sun. At Bloomington, his home town, he introduced his old Negro nurse, said: "If there's anything wrong with me, blame her." Later he said: "I ask your prayers...
...that their country might become the soup kitchen of the Western world. We want to pay our way . . . We ask a fair deal for our exporters . . . free and fair competition with your own producers." It was Thorneycroft's way of saying that high U.S. tariffs are partly to blame for Britain's troubles...
...press, the Amins slyly kept their readers informed. They wrote about a vague group called the "Entourage of Rulers," as if the members lived on another planet, thus ticked off every bit of corruption of Farouk and his cronies. Said one article: "The Entourage of Rulers is not to blame for everything . . . An entourage is but a mirror. If there are thieves around a leader, he must appear to the people as the biggest thief of all." The next issue was promptly confiscated...
...Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin respectively blame "civilization," "inherent defects," and "Sensatism" (roughly, materialism). Other ideas range from malaria to birth control...
...touchy subject in aviation circles is the effect of jet engine noise on human nerves and bodies. Some of the airmen hate to mention it; they fear that people who live near jet bases will blame all sorts of ailments on the screaming jets. The truth about jets seems to be that their noise, when heard in the open and at a reasonable distance, is not at all harmful. But the intense "sound fields,"* which extend a short way behind the tail pipe, can have alarming and possibly harmful effects on people who enter them. When afterburners come into general...