Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just not sure what it was," Penn spokesman Virgil Renzulli said. "At one point, the chief culprit was the water supply at Franklin Field. But it may not be the water...
...made sense of the malady. Steere investigated a group of children, in and around Lyme, Conn., who were suffering from a mysterious form of arthritis. He traced the outbreak to speck-size ticks of the genus Ixodes, carried mainly by mice and deer. In 1982 federal researchers isolated the culprit from the tick: a corkscrew-shaped bacterium, or spirochete, similar to the one that causes syphilis...
...FOURTH Jaws movie came out this summer, and the culprit was a living undersea menace which terrorized beachgoers...
...attacks, which began in 1983, were all on elderly women, five white and one black. By throwing a sheet over the head of each victim, the culprit had remained unseen. Yet hair samples and sketchy impressions of some witnesses indicated that the rapist was black. It also appeared likely that he was a local: he always seemed to know which women could be found alone in houses unprotected even by a dog. All of which made residents especially edgy, and made Police Chief Christopher Kelly particularly eager to solve the case...
...speculation quickly surrounded the crash. The day afterward, some witnesses reported having seen flames trailing from one of the plane's two engines. That possibility was discounted when the NTSB announced that the engines revealed no evidence of fire or early disintegration. Wind shear was also deemed a possible culprit. Abrupt wind shifts were responsible for the last major crash of a U.S. carrier, a Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 jet in Dallas on Aug. 2, 1985. In Detroit, Flight 255 had been rerouted to another runway to avoid a gust of wind from a distant thunderstorm. Still another...