Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scores concluded that, like latter-day Mrs. O'Learys, they were personally to blame for the blackout. After trimming the ends of some loose wires in readiness for the house painters next day, a Manhattan housewife saw the whole city go black and gasped: "What have I done now?" A small boy in Conway, N.H., whacked a telephone pole with a stick, saw night descend, and raced home weeping to his mother...
When it was over, a party wheelhorse at the Governor's victory party gloomed: "My God, now we really will have to produce!" At any rate, the Hughes administration will no longer be able to blame the state's ills on lethargic Republican majorities in Trenton. Its first, most ticklish task will be to find broadbased sources of revenue to finance the state's accumulated needs. New Jersey is almost unique in levying neither income nor retail sales taxes. One or the other, Hughes said throughout his campaign, will be the price of progress...
...broad shift in expenditure from private consumption to investment will require further sacrifices from the entire country. The standard of living in Britain will fall in comparison to the U.S. and western Europe, and few voters will resist the temptation to blame Labour. Despite Wilsons appeal for "consent and consensus" and his support for housing subsidies and the Ombudsman, his popularity will decline...
Daniel C. Goldfarb Jr. '66, council president, agreed to contact department chairman and discuss ways of speeding course book lists to the Coop before each term opens. Coop officials blame most of their out-of-stock problem this fall on lato information from professors...
...once again, Harvard's nonexistent passing attack was to blame for the offense's ineffectiveness. McCluskey's passing was dismal, and Harvard completed only two of 14 throws for a grand total of 16 yards. On those unavoidable third-and-five situations, which are crucial for any sustained drive, the offense couldn't move the ball. Princeton, with nothing to fear through the airways, could concentrate on stopping Harvard's ground game...