Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union called the United States the "main culprit" in the Jordanian crisis. A Foreign Office statement broadcast by Moscow Radio said the situation is dangerous and could lead to "grave consequences...
However they may be improved, the rating systems and their tyranny over TV hold no hope for the viewer who believes that the verdict of democracy is fine for government but folly for television. The viewer is both the unwitting culprit and the ultimate victim of the tyranny. The ratings discourage worthy programs that might make a deeply favorable-but un-measurable-impression (including sales impact), but that do not attract measurably large numbers. They inspire imitations of high-rated programs, touching off cycles of the second-rate...
...lucrative New York-Miami air route. As a result, Northeast stock soared from 9½ to 12½ in a single day's frantic trading (TIME, Aug. 20). For a while it looked as though Lawyer Ruppar, who had bought 1,000 shares of Northeast stock, was the culprit...
Exactly how these accusations cleared the accusers of guilt, no one said. Most of the culprit schools were resigned to a few seasons of athletic mediocrity-at least until the conference cools off.* Said a West Coast fan of purged U.C.L.A.: "Next fall the brave Bruins will probably have to play Michigan, Southern California and California with Ronnie Knox and some students...
...great Savrola, savior of his country, confronts the "sombre-clad" assassin who has slain the Dictator. The act offends his nobility. "Vile scum!" Savrola cries, and he slashes the culprit across the face with his stick...