Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...placed privies at strategic sand bars along the route. For the benefit of anxious photographers, she launched the expedition under a full moon. And she exhorted the reporters: "The management of this trip is not responsible if these elaborate procedures fail to work. In that case, don't blame us. Just put the copy in a bottle and float it down the Rio Grande. Some day, somebody may come upon it and give you a Pulitzer Prize...
...Communism in China: "I place blame squarely upon the selfish elite in China who did nothing to make the peasant's life more tolerable...
...vote against Socialist François Mitterrand. Afterward, De Gaulle brought back into his Cabinet his first Premier, Michel Debré, a hint to some that Pompidou was on the way down. Not so. As Finance Minister, Debre has had to take orders from Pompidou-and take the blame for the government's tough wages-and-price policy...
Oversold. Milward issued a statement passing the blame on to the Rolls-Royce Tyne engines that power BEA's 19 Vanguard propjets. Since mid-May, metal fragments have been showing up in the engine oil sumps, and they were found to come from compressor bearings. Pilots have had to call off flights just before takeoff because they have found oil pressure too low, and with as many as four Vanguards at a time in the shop for repairs, often due to a shortage of spare parts, the fault has had a snowball effect on BEA schedules. The newer three...
...executives at Wheeling Steel Corp. suspect that President Robert M. Mor ris is really a set of triplets masquerading as one businessman, much of the blame - or credit - for such a notion belongs to Executive Jet Aviation...