Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then that the Administration devised a new strategy suggested by canny old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn: 1) keep Congress in session, let it talk itself out, hold its nose to the grindstone, and blame Republican obstructionism for Congress' inaction; 2) let Congress know that if it got down to work on what was left of the Truman program, it could go home...
This quaint law of Father & Mother Bao Dai's subjects has its larger applications. In the past, the French (and all the West) might blame Communist successes on the Communists, who seduced Asia's millions, or on the people, who let themselves be seduced. But today, in Indo-China and elsewhere, it is clearly up to the West to keep Asia's people in line, by offering them a better life than the Communist tempters...
...came a diagnosis that was news to no one: the theater suffers from a tangled complex of ills, overwhelmingly economic, with most theater people ready to put the blame on the other fellow. Chief causes of high ticket prices: the high costs of theater rentals, sets, props, costumes, labor and the fumbling inefficiency of some producers...
...leader of the Committee explained to Warshaw what he had meant by "plot." He told Warshaw that the incident was probably done by a "disruptive element, to place the blame on the majority group of the delegation. This same thing is systematically done at all congresses." According to warshaw the leader spoke in terms of a "master plot." "Each piece is part of the puzzle, and must be made to fit in," said the leader...
...Protestantism alone to blame for the split between the two branches of Christendom? In the current issue of the Catholic liturgical monthly, Orate Fratres, the Rev. Joseph Lortz, professor of church history at Germany's Münster University in Westphalia, declares that Roman Catholicism must share the guilt...