Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more in good will than a mere $10,000. The defendants he had just sent to jail were motivated, he said, by "blind loyalty to a corporation that didn't seem to appreciate the loyalty it owed to the U.S. . . . Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. [was the] chief culprit...
...culprit looked stunned, shouted, "Good lord, he's gone!" The Navy man let him pass. Reminds you of the story of the guard on PBH steps, who stopped an entering civilian student, with the statement that Brooks House was Navy property. When he found out, he was perfectly affable about...
...window. A tough blonde (Claire Trevor) has proudly saved the newsclips about the murder Meredith learns he is being hounded for. In a Long Island mansion, with the help of a paralytic old lady (Adeline De Walt Reynolds), he at last gets the heat turned on the real culprit...
Sometime late Saturday night, when things were going pretty well at the Eliot House formal, some Elephant big-wig made fervent promises to a similarly important 'Cliffette. The promises got across, and caught up with the culprit finally yesterday, in the form of a big, bold truck...
...wood winds sound ragged, he stops the players, explains to the culprit that he has been playing piano instead of mezzo forte, achieves on the next try a precise, organlike tone. If the first violins are a hair short of unity, he singles out the lagging fiddler, points out that an improperly held bow is causing his late entrances, illustrates by drawing his baton across his left...