Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru Is the Culprit. The U.S. is active, too. Mickey Spillane's paperback epics can be bought in most bookstores. Copies of Living America, a USIS house organ with "beautiful illustrations ... of Americans participating in the good things of democratic life . . ." can be found in magazine racks of Indian aircraft and in university reading rooms, where one Indian in 20,000 can see them and be impressed. Redding's verdict: the Communists are winning the propaganda battle...
...change in climate from the entry of Chinese Communists into the Korean war. "More American aid came for Formosa. The rulers began to feel more secure in their position, and old ideas which led us to our downfall on the mainland reared up their ugly heads again." Chief culprit, Wu thought, was the Generalissimo's son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-Kuo, who heads the secret police, runs the political department in the armed forces. Wu charged that once "a dastardly attempt" was made on his life, said that Chiang refused to give a passport to his 1 5-year...
...Rothschild whom, ostensibly, he was asking for co- operation in an investigation. He was citing evidence of guilt and threatening punishment for it. And, indirectly at least, he was getting his judgment executed. In a word, he was treating Mr. Rothschild, not as a witness but as a culprit; he was requiring of him, not evidence, but a confession...
...lift houses with one finger, crush temple gates with his bare hands. The plot: a villainous lord, who has usurped the rule of the country, orders the decapitation of some people accused of losing a precious sword. Suddenly the brave hero appears, shouting "Shibaraku!" He then exposes the true culprit, the villain's henchman, thus saves the innocents' lives...
...University of Oklahoma decided that it would be only proper for him to crack the case himself. Last week he got one of his students to cooperate, told him to let it be known that he needed an advance copy of the exam and to get one of the culprits to deliver it himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand to greet him. The culprit and his three cohorts quickly confessed. They had gotten the examination questions from a used Mimeograph stencil that had been tossed into...