Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ridden King Edward III (1312-77) took a poor view of unregulated trade. To punish merchants who went on selling their wares after a fair had officially closed, Edward's Parliament passed a law under which anyone who successfully sued a black-marketeer could collect part of the culprit's fine...
...Again. In Johannesburg, South Africa, Magistrate A. S. Mathews fined a culprit ?10 for stealing a copy of a book called I Sinned Again...
...China for more conscripts, beat the drums for a bigger effort in Korea. The U.N. Commission in Korea reported: no Red Chinese volunteers, only Red Chinese regulars in Korea. But Russia's Vishinsky brushed Peking and the U.N. witness aside, vilified MacArthur as a "maniac, the principal culprit, the evil genius," railed against the six-power resolution. With satanic effrontery, he proposed withdrawal of all "foreign forces" from Korea. Chinese Red "volunteers," he explained, could not be counted as "foreign forces...
...first notes of the bullfight music sounded, one of the fans hurled a stocking filled with flour toward the arena, hit a Mexican army lieutenant squarely in the face. A soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
These people can be stopped simply by putting pictures of participants on participation tickets. There would be nothing more uncomfortable than facing a ferocious name-taker who was looking malevolently from the picture on the card to the culprit's face. Revenues would be bolstered, the H.A.A. deficit would be out, and there would be a chance of playing some windless tennis...