Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this [the Truman message] is simply a cheap political trick," said Bricker, "to try to put the blame upon the Congress...
...Formosa, U.S. newsmen asked a Nationalist spokesman why six years had elapsed before steps were taken to punish the alleged corruption. The embarrassed reply: "I suppose we have to blame it on our own inefficiency...
...other hand, enraged sections of the citizenry at large think Krick's methods are all too effective. They blame him for rained-out ball games, flash floods, dry spells, chicken-killing hailstorms, and all manner of crop damage. Beyond issuing a few over-the-shoulder rejoinders (sharp to the scientists, soothing to the citizenry), he pays little heed to such infidels, and goes on about his missionary work like Billy Graham gathering converts...
...Tatum Encores (Capitol, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). With Sweet Lorraine, Don't Blame Me and four other standards as ammunition, Jazz Virtuoso Tatum expertly explodes his arpeggios and cadenzas all over the keyboard...
...York's trustbusting Democrat, Representative Emanuel Celler, buttonholed Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson at a dinner party one evening. The U.S. needed more aluminum, said Celler, and wasn't getting it fast enough. Who, he demanded, was to blame? Charlie Wilson answered frankly: if any one man was to blame, it was Manny Celler...