Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typical dilemma, the D.A. was stymied by the problem of intent. Weissman was charged with first-degree murder under a law that covers any "depraved" attempt to kill people in general, though the culprit aims at no one in particular. But the law has never yet been applied successfully to an auto-murderer, only against crowd attackers using bombs or bullets. Weissman might have argued that he was simply trying to drive away from danger when Schaffer got in his way. In short, the D.A. did not think he could have proved intent to murder in general, let alone...
...Culprit Among Us. Scarcely stopping for the kvas that refreshes, Khrushchev wound up his ten-day visit to Hungary by again and again hitting his main theme: that the primary aim of the Communist revolution is achieving a prosperous Communism without resorting to nuclear war. Nor would he delude himself as to the difficulties of meeting that goal. When a Hungarian agronomist boasted at having surpassed the U.S. in wheat yield, Khrushchev put him in his place. "Don't fool yourself," he said. "The United States is doing better. The student in socialist countries is often afraid to work...
Next day, speaking at the Budapest Optical Works, Khrushchev said he had been informed that factories in the liveries of electric motors. Searching through his entourage, he spotted tall, bald Petr Shelest, first secretary of the Ukraine Communist Party. "The culprit is among us," Nikita announced sarcastically. "Here is Comrade Shelest eating Hungarian goulash while his factories fail to deliver...
...PROMISSORY FRAUD: A swindle in which the culprit made or implied a false promise of future action, but cannot be convicted of any crime under existing law, because he did not lie about present facts...
...first, Ford officials tried to per suade the Free Press not to run the pictures. When that failed, they began to look for the culprit. Since the Mus tang's license plate was visible in one of the photos, the investigation did not take long. The Mustang's driver was none other than the nephew of Ford Chairman Henry Ford II, Walter Buhl ("Buhlie") Ford III, at 20 already something of a legendary cut up around Grosse Pointe, the baronial suburb east of Detroit...