Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talkative detective was obviously brilliant, pudgy Sir Isaiah Berlin, Oxford don, author (The Hedgehog and the Fox), cross-country conversationalist and, during World War II, a first secretary at the British embassy in Washington. Jocelyn Davey was a nom de plume, and there seemed good reason to suspect that Sir Isaiah might be Author Davey, as well as Hero Usher. To save a fellow Reform Club member from disrepute, the real author stepped forward: brilliant, pudgy Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who was at Oxford with Sir Isaiah, lectured there in Biblical studies from 1932-39, served from 1942-57 with...
...recessive damaged genes persist unnoticed for many generations, only to appear (and perhaps to kill or cripple) when two of them meet in the same fertilized egg. They know that some damaged genes in humans have bad effects so subtle that they are hard to measure or count. They suspect that radiation damage to genetic material may have many unknown relations to cancer. Most of them say emphatically that the less radiation on the loose, the better it is for the world...
Accepted abroad in Berlin, New York and Chicago while still suspect in Paris, the impressionists fought for Louvre recognition under the leadership of Claude Monet, who spearheaded a subscription movement to buy Manet's famed nude Olympia for the nation. Accepted in 1890 after heated argument, Olympia was hung in the Luxembourg Palace, then the waiting room for the main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion...
...Long Playing, as some weary readers may suspect, but for Leslie Poles...
...many people in it, and they all just copy me." She is probably right-but there is nothing unusual about it. Each company carefully guards its new gimmicks and products, and a chemist from one firm having lunch with a chemist from another is sure to be suspect. But once a product is out, everyone grabs greedily for it. Bristol-Myers worked for nearly six years to research its Ban roll-on deodorant; after it appeared, it was copied by nearly a dozen firms...