Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department directive that all requests for Air Force assistance in taking commercial or advertising pictures must be cleared at a high level. Moreover, the XB-70 was such a highly valuable plane that it should never have been placed in such a potentially dangerous situation. Brown singled out for blame the officers who authorized the picture-taking mission. He relieved Colonel Albert M. Gate from his job as deputy for systems testing at California's Edwards Air Force Base and reprimanded two other colonels; all of them had unaccountably ignored orders to clear all such flights with their...
...seeking explanations for the food-price leap, everyone seems to have a scapegoat. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman puts at least part of the blame on the housewife. After all, Freeman notes, she insists on buying such processed meals as TV dinners, when the same ingredients would cost her one-third as much if she were willing to cook for herself. The housewife tends to castigate the retail groceryman. Says New York City Markets Commissioner Samuel J. Kearing Jr.: "When the housewife finds that she has to pay 2? more for bread, her immediate reaction is that the store owner must...
Never, insist the worriers, have the hairlike sensors of the inner ear twitched to such a range of roaring, buzzing, beeping, grinding, howling, jangling, blaring, booming, screeching, whining, gnashing and crashing. And it seems to be getting worse all the time. The more militant anti-pollutionists blame racket for such woes as heart disease, high blood pressure, stomach ulcers and sexual impotence...
Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, is flying back from England tomorrow and will arrive at the House at 2:30 p.m. One of the hosts said he would try to blame the litter on Acting Master Arthur T. Sutherland, who atended the party with his wife
...medical men, especially surgeons. "We spent a small fortune designing a special brain probe," said Tullio Ronzoni of Aerojet-General Corp. "In two years we have sold exactly one - to the doctor who first asked for it. Every other brain surgeon wants his own design." Manufacturers share the blame. "Many of what were passed off as cardiac monitors were just old oscillators out of the radio shack," admitted Ronzoni. By week's end medicos and manufacturers alike had loudly agreed to work harder to get the bugs out of the gadgets. With all their frustrations, the medical technologists...