Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recounts Read, a Canadian sheriff who lost a culprit in a bog swore out a warrant, explaining that the offender "non est comeatibus in swampo." By 1841 the mock Latin for "will not come out of the swamp" was widely accepted backwoods legal terminology for "unavailable." An Illinois tavern keeper posted notice of a delinquent barfly who disappeared without paying his tab: "Non est inventus ad libitum scape goatum non comeatibus in swampo. Ergo, non catchibus, non prosecutibus, non tryabus, non chastisibus...
Almost no one east of the Rockies needs to be told that summer 1958 has been a season of abnormal rain, overcast skies and generally cooler temperatures, but last week meteorologists were ready to fix the blame. Principal culprit: the band of planetary winds that flow eastward across the North American continent at 10,000 to 40,000 ft. The planetary winds ordinarily stay far north in summer, allowing warm air to flow up freely from the South. But this summer, for reasons unknown, the winds have veered far southward into the U.S. middle, dragging with them cold northern...
...That Lady I Saw You With? (by Norman Krasna) concerns a Columbia chemistry professor whose wife catches him kissing a girl student and at once starts packing for Reno. A would-be helpful pal of the culprit cooks up the explanation that the kiss was part of the professor's job as an FBI man. This quickly makes matters worse, for though the wife is mollified, the FBI gets wind of the story. Wheels start to turn, wires begin to cross, and the plot not only thickens but broadens and lengthens as well...
...twig. More than a score of separate Russian governments were contesting Lenin's right to rule on Russian soil. The Russian people were famine-ridden and war-weary. Lenin himself relied on endless improvisation. If this was one of history's great lost opportunities, the chief culprit was Wood-row Wilson. Democrat Kennan admits: "[Wilson] drew onto himself, ultimately, the blame for the failure of the entire venture (on the ground that the United States' contribution had been too little and too late...
Marx knew capitalism at its 19th century worst, decided it could never reform, and remanded it to the custody of the state. Result: tyranny. Marx's error, say K. & A., was his failure to see that the culprit was not the institution of private property itself, but undue concentration of capital in a few hands. The Kelso-Adler answer: decentralize capital, make everybody a "citizen-capitalist...