Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constitution and its students, Open uses the honor system exclusively in all phases of its activities. However, Open's honor system is not plagued with the usual moral problems which accompany its use at lesser institutions. There is no incident on record in which anyone but the actual culprit has been responsible for the reporting of an offense against the regulations of the college or community...
...culprit willingly identified himself as Richard, and seemed delighted to get a ride in one of the squad cars. Said he: "This ain't the same auto you had the last time you arrested me." He and his pals, it developed, had gotten into the meat market twice before, had scored a $63 haul the first time, but had been nabbed on a second try. With forthright gravity, Richard described other details of his criminal career: he had also helped break into a hardware store, a fish market, a dress shop, a dry-cleaning establishment and a candy store...
...than talk for oldtimers, there came a faint but ringing echo from the regime of rape and rapaciousness. A shrunken man in his 70s stood before a court in law-abiding San Jose, Costa Rica, and paid a fine after conviction on a morals charge involving minor girls. The culprit was sick and lonely but no down & outer. An arrogant sybarite, wealthy from U.S. investments, with a fierce, bristling mustache, he gave his name to the court as Santos Matute...
Over the years Stoughton housed such famous and dignified men as Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, but one night in December, 1870, its prim, Puritan Peace was shattered, when a bomb exploded under Room 17, damaging the entire north wing. The culprit was never caught...
People in Paris were coming down with something like parrot fevert-but they had not caught it from parrots. Dr. Pierre Lepine, the Pasteur Institute's virus expert, spent two years tracking down the culprit. Last week he had it: the plump Parisian pigeon...