Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grim-faced French colon. From the six Moroccan tribesmen bound together with a single rope, he picked out a shaven-headed Berber, captured by the French Foreign Legion in the plundered shambles that had been the prosperous town of Oued Zem (pop. 4,600). A helmeted Legionnaire slapped the suspect on the head and led him out to be shot. Thus, last week began France's bloody revenge for one of the bloodiest massacres of Europeans in modern colonial history...
...studies isolated live Type 1 virus in three of the six lots. The Type i virus also showed up in the stools of 59 out of 60 polio victims, either children vaccinated from the six suspect lots, or persons who came in contact with them. Conclusion: "Infective amounts of live virus were contained in the six lots...
Saved from the Fire. Along with other refuse of war, the piano was supposed to be burned on a giant scrap heap in the desert. Carmi did not suspect that there might be anything special about it, but he could not bear the thought of any piano's being burned, no matter how old and battered. He got permission from his superior officer to keep it out of the flames. Later, partially restored but still encased in plaster, the piano was given to a troupe of entertainers touring the British armies in the Mediterranean...
...good guy, Actor Grant never had it so good. He is an American, a reformed jewel thief, known in his day as "The Cat." Now retired, he lives cool and easy on the rocks, puttering about a villa. Then comes trouble. The police suspect that he is responsible for a batch of jewel robberies. To prove his innocence, he must uncover the real villain...
...Suspect Orders. Then Father Williamson intimated that many Annunciationist priests (his estimate: 1,700 to 2,000, a figure that Anglican sources claim is grossly exaggerated) might be forced to secede and join the Roman Catholic Church. Reason: "That we may, by continuing to hold to the faith, represent the true Church of England, and that if we seek reconciliation with the Holy See we may end, historically speaking, the schism which took place under Henry VIII...