Word: professed
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...dissolved in liquor or perfume (it is easily recovered after passing customs). Water containing dissolved cocaine can be soaked into cotton clothes and retrieved days later with a loss of only about 10%. Middle-size traders often hire "mules," innocent-looking travelers, to walk their goods through customs; they profess ignorance if caught. A former Los Angeles probation officer and his Colombian wife were arrested with five associates last month; 6 lbs. of coke were concealed in the soles of their wedge shoes...
Indeed, while the officials responsible for U.S. planning often see Soviet influence and Soviet gains in all corners of the world, there is evidence for thinking that Soviet planners see?or profess to see ?just the opposite: a threatening NATO to the west, a threatening China to the east, a less friendly India to the south, mishaps and reverses everywhere. It is this real or feigned element of paranoia in Soviet policy that makes the current prospects confronting Washington so tricky. Even though one of the purposes of Carter's China move may well have been to gain some...
...problem thus reduces to finding a way of bringing students together--not, as student government would do, on the basis of elected students who profess a nondescript interest in "governance"--but on the basis of interest in a more narrow issue or area. In the past, no such mechanism has existed at Harvard...
Some of Begin's own colleagues profess surprise at the degree of the Administration's disappointment over the stalled talks. Amazingly, some Israeli officials now say privately that if Washington had made it clear to the two sides how important the Dec. 17 deadline had been to Carter, a treaty agreement might have been reached on schedule. Nothing could illustrate more clearly the character of the present impasse than that fundamental misperception...