Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without Leaders. Who was to blame for the Congress' indifferent record at Easter time? Some of the responsibility rested with the Administration, whose requests to Congress had been sweeping and vast-and unspecific. The White House, dallying and fumbling, had supplied little guidance. On Capitol Hill itself there was a woeful lack of leadership. Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, though patient and well-liked, had failed to hold the Senate's nose to the grindstone. Tom Connally, usually impatient and arrogant, could think of nothing better to do in the field of foreign policy than let the opposition talk...
There were some exceptions. Athletes get no special consideration in the Midwest's Big Ten. At Northwestern, for example, 4.6% of the student body are athletes, who get only 3.6% of the scholarships. Grutzner also found that the colleges were not always to blame for the recruiting, subsidizing and win-at-all-costs spirit. Often it was "a tug of war, with educators pitted against Old Grads and local businessmen [and] the educators lost ground to those who put a Bowl bid above a Phi Beta Kappa...
Actually, Hearstlings had made no attempt to check the legitimacy of the Zabronsky letter. They,laid the blame for the blooper on Figaro for printing it in the first place...
...spite of the best efforts of Razmara and the Shah,* Iran's economy began sliding downhill. As unemployment grew, Iranians tended to blame the whole mud dle on British imperialism. Tudeh party leaders and Mohammedan fanatics of the National Front joined in spreading the be lief that nationalization of oil would end Iran's troubles...
...This kind of thing is silly," said Professor Alvin H. Hansen, referring to biographies in general, "but you can't blame the students for wanting to put something in their newspaper." Hansen has a good reason to object; for 20 years as the nation's leading Keynesian economist, he has received plenty of attention...