Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into Hobart when the smoke cleared, Prime Minister Harold Holt walked amid the rubble of what he called "the nearest thing to a blitzed city that I hope we ever see in this country." Some stunned survivors thumbed through Old Moore's Almanac for 1967 and laid the blame on the stars. Said Moore's: "From January to July, there are unfavorable signs relating to the timber industry. These are expected to manifest themselves in a number of almost disastrous forest fires when Mars forms a square to Jupiter...
King absolves teachers of blame for overwork. The teachers, he argues, "are trapped by the demands of parents and by the demands of colleges and their ever-increasing standards for admission. The teacher is forced into the role of the overseer driving with a whip." King's remedy: more attention to student welfare. "The student," he says, "has a right to receive individual attention and a right to proceed at his own rate...
Kramer said Sachar hinted in his speech that faculty members were spending too much time on research and graduate education and not enough on teaching undergraduates. But Kramer insisted that the student body does not blame overcrowding on the faculty as a whole...
Hoffman emphasized that he did not blame merchants for maximizing their profits and was not suggesting any crusade or boycott...
...space. His 118-mile-high suborbital flight was a success, but the splashdown in the Atlantic ended in near-disaster when the capsule hatch inexplicably blew off, swamping Grissom inside. Gus swam from the sinking craft and was rescued by helicopter. Though he was in no way to blame for the mishap, he inevitably became known to the public as the astronaut who lost his capsule. He became more reticent, withdrew even more than usual to the company of his wife Betty and two sons, convinced that he had to prove himself anew...