Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not explain the need for two papers. Dean contends that one was a resignation, the other a confession of his sole role in the Watergate cover-up-papers Dean would not sign because he claimed that Ehrlichman and Haldeman were deeply involved as well and must share the blame. Thus it was that Nixon announced on April 30 that Dean had been fired and Ehrlichman and Haldeman had resigned...
That ingenious paradox Collier is not about to accept. If the Fall is a tragedy, Collier feels, as petulantly as the veriest college sophomore, then God is to blame. He was running the show, wasn't he? Even more fashionably, Collier looks on the Fall of Man as a liberation -from timeless, static perfection into the rich, brothy, changeful world of guilt and death, of love and squalor...
...Post, which Rees-Mogg had singled out for special blame, along with the New York Times, replied that...
...exact cause of the crash may never be known unless the Russians can recover more data from the TU-144's damaged flight recorder. Most experts blame Koslov for trying to force the TU-144 through maneuvers better suited to a fighter than an airliner. The real question, though, was not what caused the disaster but what effect it would have on the development of the SST. The French and British have had scant success in selling their enormously expensive Concorde (cost: $46 million apiece). The Russians clearly had hoped that the Paris show would boost...
...empaneled? The obvious precedent is the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, who was convicted in 1954 of murdering his wife, only to be set free twelve years later by the U.S. Supreme Court because of the "carnival atmosphere" created by the press. Justice Tom Clark nonetheless put the legal blame on the judge's "failure to protect Sheppard sufficiently from prejudicial publicity." He had not sequestered the jurors nor "proscribed extrajudicial statements by any lawyer, party, witness or court official." The defendant was convicted in the press while his trial was still in progress, and the jury was apparently...