Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blip & Buzzer. Every day 25,000 aircraft, on the average, are flying over the U.S., and all are suspect until proved friendly. Every plane flying near target areas or over 4,000 ft. must file a flight plan; any deviation of ten miles or five minutes attracts jet interceptors...
...maps), dashed toward two long, lean F-86D fighters. In two minutes they were surging down the runway with a crashing roar, and two more jets rolled into position for takeoff. Before their wheels were fully up, the lead pair were getting radio orders and a fix on the suspect plane. Interceptor pilots can open fire at will against any aircraft they believe to be hostile. Identifications are quickly made in daylight; at nighttime, pilots buzzed by suspicious jets are quick to turn on their landing lights to identify themselves...
...civil war ended, and he was admitted to the triumphant Russian Communist Party. It was a switch many thousands of people in the professional classes, facing starvation or physical liquidation, made at that time. But it set him apart from the old Bolsheviks; he was for a long time suspect...
...campus spread out to cover 20. But like most college presidents of the postwar years, he had also brushed with controversy. To at least one Illinois official-Vernon Nickell, the state's superintendent of public instruction and powerful ex officio member of the board that made Henry highly suspect...
...enemy, but only in order to diddle some secrets out of a raja (Arnold Moss) with a slight New York accent. Add to the linguistic confusion a Hindu girl (Ursula Thiess) who has a German accent, and even the children for whom the movie is intended may suspect that the action is not quite faithful to history...