Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canceled those cotton allotments." That, in McClellan's mind, seemed to leave Murphy, a Government careerist who helped draft the New Deal's second Agricultural Adjustment Act in 1938 and who served as special counsel to Harry Truman, as the chief culprit...
Happily unflustered was the culprit: Senior Jessica Moore, 17, the straight-A student editor of Talon, who had simply picked Marx's maxim out of Bartlett's Familiar (but not everywhere) Quotations. "If anyone other than Marx had said it," she remarked sensibly, "there wouldn't have been any excitement." Then Jessica went off to accept a long-scheduled honor: a citizenship award from the Memphis branch of the D.A.R...
Eight fearless men in blue captured and killed last night a dangerous escapee from the Harvard Yard. The culprit was shot to death at 11:58 p.m. behind Cambridge Savings on Holyoke...
Before passing sentence, Mr. Justice Havers made it clear who he thought was the real culprit of the case. "It may well be that you came under the influence of Lord Russell, who is certainly old enough to know better than to incite young people to break the laws of this country." Then he meted out the stiffest sentences ever given in Britain for a civil disobedience case: one year in prison for the sole woman defendant, 18 months for each of the five...
...President Romulo Betancourt in June 1960 (see following story). "I do not deny that the reprehensible act that almost cost the life of one of the leaders of Western civilization deserved sanction. But it is not fair that the punishment should continue after the death of the culprit." He excused his countrymen for being "half-crazed after three decades of terror," and then pleaded for an end to the punitive economic sanctions imposed against his country by the Organization of American States last year...