Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Killing the Cows. In fairness, the farmer should not be blamed for food prices. The real culprit is the Government itself. Since the '30s, Washington has been subsidizing farmers in order to reduce food production. As New York's Kearing explains: "Where the U.S. once had food surpluses, we now have scarcities-scarcities induced by the Department of Agriculture." It should go without saying that food in relatively short supply costs more than food in surplus...
...able younger brother Prince Sultan, his 41-year-old Defense Minister, who recently demanded that Feisal fire fully 75% of the ministry workers for tardiness after the long hajj (pilgrimage) holiday this spring. As for anyone found taking a bribe, Sultan says he will personally demand the culprit's execution...
Professor usually specify "married" after they've lost one or two secretaries to the altar. The Government Department, for example, has lost two secretaries in a row to marriage; the male culprit in each case was a Harvard graduate student. Miss Hill reports an embittered professor's "order" for a secretary who was middle-aged, lived in Cambridge, and wore glasses...
Sixteen months of off-again on-again, frustrating negotiations came to an end last week as Boston's five dailies were struck and forced to shut down. The cause of the news blackout was the same culprit that struck New York papers for 114 days in 1962-63: the printers union. Not content merely to strike, some I.T.U. members appear to have hacked up 75 pages of type in the Boston Globe's composing room at a cost of $14,000 to the paper...
...What You Did has just got under way when a pair of youngsters wander out to a barn to visit a pony. Suddenly the door slams shut behind them. Outside, the bushes begin rustling. Can it be the wind? An unseen enemy? Actually, nothing at all is happening. The culprit is really Producer-Director William Castle, who seldom lets plausibility slow the pace of his grade-B shockers...