Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zachariades had long ago learned that in the internal struggle for party power, success means the survival of the shiftiest. His formula was impressively simple: never let anyone else get too strong; heap the blame on someone else when things go wrong. For 20 years the technique kept Zachariades all-powerful in Greek Communism. In 1950 he used it on the "old man" of Greek Communism, the late George Sianto's, who was head of the party in Greece during the years of Nazi occupation. When the tide of war started going against Greece's Communist guerrillas early...
...Interior, an ex-Nazi who is John's old boss, had stoutly defended him and offered $119,000 reward for information about John's "abduction." Now he flatly called him a traitor. Schröder also did his best to free the Adenauer government of any blame: the British, he said, had forced John's appointment as West Germany's security chief after rejecting...
...that some mothers of teenagers do not get up to get breakfasts for their children [TiME, July 19]; but why blame mother entirely? A teen-ager should begin to take on some responsibility of adulthood. He or she . . . has as much time as anyone else-exactly 24 hours a day . . . My nine-year-old can already cook an egg (boiled or fried), make a piece of toast, squeeze an orange and pour a glass of milk...
What is the matter with these students? ... If I did not get up for mine (a college grad), he would not eat until noon.'Why blame Momism and not world tension or commercialism...
...last week that he did not know them well. By her own account, "something started to stir" in Joan Hinton when the first A-bombs were dropped. "Hiroshima," she scribbled in a frenzied letter, "150,000 lives. One, two, three, four . . . one hundred and fifty thousand . . . Were we to blame?" Most atomic scientists, far closer to the bomb than Joan Hinton, have struggled with this sense of guilt. Joan Hinton's answer was to abandon her profession and her country...