Word: onus
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...Professor Fay published his volume, The Origins of the World War two years ago. The two works are similar in many ways but they differ on the fundamental question as to where to lay the blame for the final cause of the outbreak of 1914. Professor Schmidt puts the onus on Germany whereas she is exonerated by Professor...
...Posterity Will Curse!" When the till is short the cashier is supposed to feel guilty. With an almost religious fervor Mr. Snowden cast the onus of this guilt upon his predecessors at the Exchequer. He directly faced and was seen to point an avenging finger at Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin (who as Chancellor of the Exchequer negotiated the Anglo-U. S. debt settlement) as he said...
...bring up the subject she can easily deny (and properly) having seen the pornographic exhibit and put the onus on me, and my efforts at explaining that this was not the usual sort of picture for you to print, or me to look at, will be increasingly difficult if she claims not to have noticed...
...Silidar cavalry had sweated and suffered the tortures of the damned in the valley of the Dead Sea. Now we were moving by forced marches at night to be on time for Zero Hour, to have the honor of storming an entrenched position, to relieve the Jews of the onus of crusading on their own account...
Through a lighted window shaggy old Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France could be seen in his celebrated fighting attitude, slumped and seemingly dozing in a great arm chair, while the onus of battle was borne by his dynamic lieutenant, Louis Loucheur, famed walrus-moustached industrialist and "Richest Man in France." Came a rumor that Germany's bald, flabby-fleshed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann had suddenly collapsed in the midst of an impassioned speech, smitten by his old kidney trouble. The rumor was corrected; Dr. Stresemann had merely gone very pale and turned over the task of talking...