Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simmering Summer. Bitter postmortems pinned the blame variously on the Senate's Democrats, one-third of whom voted against cloture; on the Republicans, two-thirds of whom did the same; on President Johnson, who did not twist arms with his usual vigor to line up support; on civil rights leaders, who fell to quarreling among themselves, failed to lobby effectively...
...with the impact ba'ck home. Erhard's problems began in July when his Christian Democrats lost ground to the opposition Social Democrats in a crucial state election. Since then, he has been beset by a quasi-uprising of German generals, and by political snipers, who even blame his government for the recent tragic loss of an elderly submarine and 19 sailors. With all this going against him, Erhard badly needs a success at the White House...
...explanation can cloud the fact that the club, having agreed to give Rockwell both a small fee and expenses, concluded that a contract with a Nazi was no contract at all. The blame for breaking this contract lies not in the existence of pressure--outside or otherwise--but in the club's inability to resist such pressure once it had formally committed itself...
...equally senseless to try to find the culprits for the Met's failings. Perhaps one is architect Wallace K. Harrison. Perhaps a gaggle of interior decorators are to blame. Or maybe we should accuse the board of bankers, who have a tendency to raise thousands of dollars and then spoil everything by adding their own two cents...
...world organization, since the Red Chinese have insisted that they are the only legitimate government in China, and have refused to join so long as the Taiwan government is represented. But the two-China policy would have two advantages over our present position. First, it would put the blame for Red China's exclusion squarely on Peking--where it belongs--far more convincingly than all the rhetoric about the communists' programs to "transform the world by violence." And second, it would allow the U.S. to accept the admission of Red China much more gracefully than our present policy, if such...