Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Contests. Each of the twelve arrested last week faces a sentence of up to five years in prison, up to $10,000 in fines. But the gulled newspapers-and particularly the puzzle syndicates-must assume a big share of the blame. The puzzles were ripe for fixing, and in some cases newspapers, e.g., the Milwaukee Sentinel, ignored tips that the fix was on. And neither of the two syndicates-General Features and Superior Features-that sold services to the phony paper in Ontario bothered to check the client's false credentials...
Blue v. Blue. Dr. Singley knew that he was dealing with methemoglobinemia, in which poisoned red cells carry no oxygen, and other cells cannot deliver enough, to the tissues. Many chemicals can cause the condition, and Dr. Singley had no idea which was to blame. But the remedy is the same: methylene blue, given intravenously, restores hemoglobin to normal oxygen-bearing function. Dr. Singley tried it on both boys and they responded quickly, lost their weird bluish cast...
Fast as the Communists could pass the ammunition, Radio Baghdad fired back that Nasser was the honorary President of the Egyptian Freemasons' lodge and hence, naturally enough, a partner of Zionism. Who was to blame for the unsuccessful Mosul uprising? "The blood of Mosul's free men will haunt you, Gamal," railed the Baghdad announcer. Taunted Radio Cairo: "Iraqis now call their government 'the rule of the Red butcher...
...Hugh Gaitskell tried to turn Britain's recent financial settlement with Nasser into a formal censure of the 1956 Suez invasion, which he described as a "disastrous act of folly almost without parallel in our history." Nor was ailing Tory Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden alone to blame, he went on: "There were others involved, and they were not ill." Jabbing his finger at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Gaitskell cried: "I believe that the guilty men are sitting there on those benches. It is time that they were brought to trial...
Frank M. Carpenter '26, Chairman of the Biology Department, called the situation "impossible." He charged that "physics is to blame" for the conflict, since Biology I has been given at the same hour for seven or eight years...