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Word: suspect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflicting their claims to a twice-Promised Land, so much death and grief and hurt a part of existence to both peoples, so real their fears and so inescapable their hostility, that outsiders who arrive there to talk of evenhandedness, fair-mindedness and rational solutions find themselves instantly suspect for their naiveté. The most egregious assumption that outsiders make is that their detachment gives them superior wisdom. In fact, the intractable problems of the Middle East have been endlessly considered and eloquently argued on both sides. In candid private moments, Israeli leaders can discuss Arab rights and needs with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: How Deep Is the U.S. Commitment to Israel? | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...dead, even if that person is physically alive...feeling a deep familial piety for his defunct historical self, he indulges in ancestor worship, tidies up embarrassing disorders of his dead past, reverently conceals his own skeleton in a hidden closet...no writer enjoys total recall, every recollection is suspect...

Author: By Bruns H. Grayson, | Title: The Inexpressible Conflict | 10/26/1973 | See Source »

Although much of the violence has been officially blamed on the Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Army, many Argentines suspect unruly leftists in Perón's own movement. Perón has not publicly accused his leftists, who in fact played a large role in returning him to power. But he has issued orders for an all-out campaign against Marxists in general, not excluding those who call themselves Peronistas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Prudence over Pomp | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

...Declare sex discrimination as constitutionally suspect as race discrimination, thereby rendering the equal rights amendment largely superfluous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Pair of Dockets | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

...Reston passed over the statement, writing only that "more things could be said about this than the patience of readers would tolerate"; his concern was that Agnew was speaking moderately and being "virtually" ignored by the national press as a result. Other commentators found Agnew's remark highly suspect at the time, and the ensuing Watergate disclosures about wiretapping reporters and "enemies lists" of journalists have done nothing to support Agnew's claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Such Good Friends | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

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