Word: speciously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main target is the 1,000 or so hippie types who congregate along Peachtree Street, just north of downtown. Atlanta police have stepped up patrols of the area, often stopping and threatening those of unorthodox appearance. Young people are arrested on such specious charges as loitering, jaywalking and obscenity. Shops and homes are raided, ostensibly in search of drugs, but so often that occupants claim they are being harassed...
...thing is that Macdonald seems to have been listening. The Goodbye Look is overlong for its specious plot, weighted down with pompous prose about lost opportunities, missed communications, failed lives. As in several Macdonald mysteries, the story itself concerns a troubled youth-in this case, a rich college student who may have committed three murders, but because of head wounds and shock, cannot remember whether...
That argument is rather specious, since the number of soldiers who carry their Social Security numbers in their heads roughly equals the number volunteering for night guard duty...
...simultaneous dishwasher, apartment handyman and hospital orderly frantically adds another occupation to his schedule: logician. His syllogism is primer-simple, though specious: 1) Puerto Ricans grow up to be busboys or elevator men; 2) Cuban refugees are hailed as heroes; 3) a Puerto Rican who passes as Cuban will be hailed as a hero. Turning theory into practice, he trains the kids to navigate an outboard motorboat, drills them on Cuban geography and orders them to speak solamente en espanol. Then he busses them down to Miami and turns them loose on the outgoing tide. "Better to drown...
...argument that Youth Fare promotes education, incidentally, seems as specious to the Examiner as the contention that it promotes highway safety by keeping young people off the road. Said Present' "No probative evidence [suggests] that youth fares have in any way facilitated the acquisition of a college education by any youth...