Word: malefactors
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...Never before in all the history of the Soviet state has such an unbridled anti-Soviet campaign been conducted in any country, even those most hostile to the Soviet Union." The malefactor thus condemned last week by Tass was Red China, whose sparks of civil chaos are falling more on its onetime Communist allies than on anyone else...
...five, led by an insubordinate British officer (Sean Connery) and a black West Indian sneak thief (Ossie Davis), are prisoners in a British army stockade during World War II. The architect of their torture on the hill is a brutal sergeant major (Harry Andrews) who believes that any malefactor must be smashed flat if he is to shape up again as "a credit to the uniform...
Escaping detection on each occasion, the "Mad Buttoner" left further traces of mania in the form of notes in the proctor's room and on the office desk in the Freshman Union. The exam period frustration of the unknown malefactor apparently took the form of cryptic missives and verses on a theme of buttons. "Button, button, who's got the button" was a favorite...
...corn had a mysterious disease. It looked as if it were dying of drought, but when rain fell, the corn did not recover. The disease spread, and last year sample plants were sent to North Carolina State College, where plant pathologists could find no bacterium, virus, fungus or other malefactor to account for the trouble. Then a graduate student from India took a careful look at the sick corn and recognized among its roots the underground stems of witchweed, which had never before invaded the Western Hemisphere...
...matter finally reached the critical stage in March, 1953, when a spokesman for the Un-American Activities Committee called Glasser a "serious malefactor," and he was ordered to testify before the committee in Washington. Several months previously the Rutgers board of trustees had adopted its policy of regarding use of the Fifth Amendment as valid cause for dismissal, so that Glasser went before the committee with the knowledge that refusal to testify would almost certainly prejudice his position in the University...