Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obviously, the involvement of former White House aides and Nixon's closest campaign workers would lead any investigative agency to suspect that presidential advisers might have inspired the operation. If ever there was to be a test of whether the FBI could pursue its purely police function and stand aloof from partisan politics, this was it. Gray flunked the test...
...from congressional -or public-scrutiny. Foreign and defense policies were often deemed too sensitive to be disclosed. Congress, meanwhile, made a miserable case for the right to know. Led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, it hounded the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations for FBI files on federal employees whose politics were suspect. To keep congressional hands off, both Presidents made sweeping claims of privilege...
...reason is that there really was no hard news to report on these women's deaths for a long time. There was no definite murder suspect, no real clues, not even a concrete notion of the women's intentions or actions that led up to the killings...
...society's predecessors of 1895 and 1936 were responsible for the first Yard plaques to which many of the letters referred. Michael J. Halberstam '53 noted in a postscript: "I spent most of my freshman year reading the old lists. I became such an expert on names that I suspect that was one reason I nearly flunked...
...with fluid from a cowpox pustule in a successful attempt to give him resistance against the more virulent smallpox. Jenner knew nothing about the immune system, but he had recognized that milkmaids who frequently came in contact with cows suffering from cowpox seldom contracted smallpox. Scientists began to suspect that the body had a mechanism for identifying and combatting disease agents only after Louis Pasteur discovered the existence of bacteria and in the 1850s propounded the germ theory of disease...