Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic Defense. So far in warfare, every new weapon has brought forth a counter-weapon. Missilemen suspect-they even hope-that this will happen again. Their best hope is in atom-armed birds, whose fireballs may be more de-tructive in space than in the atmosphere. Some believe that they can even destroy an ICBM striking at 16,000 m.p.h. Such missiles can be tracked by their heat and ionized trails, and their trajectories determined. The "reaction time" will be frighteningly short-only a few minutes...
...helped to organize the "action committees" that bored into every section of Czech life. After the coup he returned to Moscow, but was back in Prague three years later to supervise the liquidation of Rudolf Slansky and a score of other top Czech Communists on Stalin's suspect list...
...except Reynaud seems to have liked very much. He also had a wife. Anglo-Saxons believe that the French have a way of managing these things. Not so Paul Reynaud, who had the unhappy faculty of finding himself in the same salon with both ladies. It is possible to suspect that Paul Reynaud, for all his intelligence, lacked organizing ability. This is confirmed on the political level by the fact that as finance minister, in 1939, he was taken over by a smoothly operating squad of officials who should have been, but were not, executing his will...
Progress Report. In Taegu, South Korea, two weeks after he escaped from jail, Murder Suspect Kank Woo Won sent a polite note to the prosecutor: "I wasn't feeling too well because I feared I would be executed, but I am very well now, thank...
...girls out until one, however, this thesis seems somewhat far-fetched. As a matter of fact, the banner of propriety might fly higher if activity were confined to students' rooms. Anyone who has left Cronin's at eleven-thirty and driven along Storrow Drive to Wellesley would almost certainly suspect that the best interests of propriety might be served by allowing students to remain in their rooms...