Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schwartz hopes to find evidence that contacts of the Niles victims have developed immunity to the disease. He believes that this will be shown if there are no more cases in the Niles community for four or five years. Investigation might also show that some other disease is the culprit, by making children more susceptible to acute leukemia, or by triggering its onset...
...small minority dedicated to the 'rag'--the student practical joke. In the past six years, 'raggers' have tethered a goat on Merton Chapel roof, driven an Austin down a Botany Department corridor, rolled a barrel into a graduate student maternity ward at 2 a.m. (the authorities gave the culprit a second chance and he was expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after the last incident, the 'raggers' excelled themselves...
They finally located the culprit who has been letting the gold get out of the country -that much-maligned stereotype, the serviceman's wife...
...medical knowledge, new medical skills, and new settings for application of such knowledge and skills." Adds Cornell's Dr. McDermott: "To reduce pollution significantly would require changes in our personal habits and costly changes for our industry and our Government. It is pointless to search for a culprit in this situation. Unlike the veteran parent, we cannot say simply, 'I don't care who did it-you pick it up.' We must all pick it up together...
...book opens, a scientific fraud in the form of a faked photo of an experiment is uncovered, and a court of dons quietly strips the seeming culprit of his rank as a university fellow. Hush-hush becomes buzz-buzz as the ex-fellow, Donald Howard, insists that his renowned old scientific mentor, now dead, framed him. To compound this apparent caddishness, Howard is also a fellow traveler and a boorish personality. His only ally is the conscience of a few of his colleagues who fear justice has miscarried...