Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completed a swing through Europe, exposing herself to new trends in the arts. "In London," said Gypsy, "it is called the Paris striptease. In Paris, it is the American striptease. And in Vienna, it is the London striptease. I guess they're all trying to pass the blame...
Grand Design. Even Wilbur Mills's friends admit that he is partly to blame for his committee's ineffectuality this year. By overcautiously trying to win Republican agreement before bringing proposals to a committee vote, he has lost Democratic backing. In operating too much on his own, he has failed to collect the committee's fragmented Democratic majority into a united front. By failing to canvass committee members with sufficient care, he has frequently misjudged how they would vote...
...gain in grain, not the 102% Peking had boasted of, and there had been a 28% increase in cotton, not 104%. The false claims had to be confessed so that the planners could sharply drop their targets for next year. The party's communiqué put the blame for the false figures on "lack of experience in assessing and calculating output," and gloomily blamed the lowered output on bad weather, and the fact that reaping, threshing and storing "were all done in a somewhat hurried manner...
...third grade, after failing the first and second a couple of times, he finds that he's eleven and the other kids are eight. He rationalizes by saying his skin is darker and that's why he's being failed. He doesn't blame Daddy and Mother. He doesn't ask why they didn't teach him English. He quits school and blames you, because your skin is lighter...
Kneading a white handkerchief over his knuckled fist, Kassem explained that he had "gathered you here to reprove you and to place blame on you and your editors ... for indulging in recrimination, confusing the people, and creating the present condition in the country...