Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when charges of professional misconduct are brought against lawyers-and to build up a fund that would compensate bilked clients when professional misconduct includes misuse of funds. For if a lawyer has dissipated a client's cash, the money may be gone for good-whether or not the culprit is eventually punished by the courts...
...your guns down." All the while, proclaimed the official party newspaper admiringly, Osagyefo held the assailant in a jujitsu grip-"a demonstration of the Leader's moral, spiritual and physical strength over his enemies." But an official photograph purporting to show Nkrumah in the act of subduing the culprit started a wave of rumors that the whole incident was rigged to boost Aweful's popularity at home. To skeptics the scene looked too placid to be plausible...
...method actor is a frequent culprit-he has worked so hard for inner feeling that he forgets to bring it out into the light where we can get a look at it. He has struggled successfully at such difficult tasks as pretending that he is a tree in full bloom, but he has never learned to say a final...
...beneath his eyes with a crumpled handkerchief. When he rose, he openly played for the sympathy of his colleagues. "What has happened," he said, "has inflicted a deep, bitter and lasting wound on me." Essentially his defense was that he had been grossly deceived by Profumo-an "almost unbelievable" culprit-and badly let down by his subordinates, who failed to keep him informed. From the back benches came a rude gibe of "Nobody ever tells me nuffin...
Several girls were not quite so grateful for the excuse to stop studying, and the panty-seeking crowd also got several water bombs for its trouble. One such missile thrown from Barnard Hall struck a Cambridge policeman who raced into the building after the culprit...