Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the briefest of short stories, Fry had made a very long one-act play. The wit and poetry that glow brightly in his The Lady's Not For Burning (TIME, April 24) merely glint and flicker in Phoenix. But on Broadway Phoenix was as much victim as culprit: it was badly produced, and had to share the billing with something very bad indeed...
Judge Arthur P. Stone '93 gave the culprit a one-year suspended sentence and put him on probation on the condition that he help recover other books he was accused of taking. As yet, Perry has only returned the cover of the book, Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of Libraries, said last night...
...public, the Democrats tried to look only outraged. In private, they also looked worried, and many a politico said gloomily that even if McCarthy found no culprit, he had still hurt the Democratic Party with all his hue & cry. At Key West, President Truman called in newsmen to try to repair the damage. After passing out hamburgers and lemonade, he turned the full weight of his office against the Senator from Wisconsin. McCarthy's charges, said the President, talking a little extremely himself, had become the greatest asset the Kremlin now had in the cold...
Furthermore, said the President, McCarthy was not the only culprit. He accused the whole Republican policy committee of seizing on the investigations as a means of destroying bipartisan foreign policy. Still swinging wildly, he compared such an act during a cold war to shooting U.S. soldiers in the back during a hot war. The chief offenders, besides McCarthy, said Harry Truman, were New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, Republican floor leader...
...fire was extinguished within minutes after the fivemen had hauled a ladder up through the window and torn away sections of the sound absorbent ceiling. Faulty wining was the culprit...