Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tens of thousands of buraku-min have tried to flee oppression by "passing." But the risk of discovery is high -partly because of the diligence of private detectives hired either by corporation personnel managers or by parents who suspect that their offspring's fiance may be of buraku-min origin. Many outcasts, while passing at work in the city, still prefer to live in the reassuringly familiar surroundings of their special hamlets; they must resort to ruses like getting off the bus a stop or two early so that fellow passengers who are not outcasts will not see them...
Epton made a point of meeting with young gang chieftains, explaining the law's point of view and answering their questions. He invited leaders to sit with him on the bench, and he would ask for their advice before sentencing a suspect. Sometimes he even took the "colleagues" to lunch for far-ranging discussion of the law. More than 5,000 boys shared the bench with Epton, learning, as the judge put it, that "there is no more mystery in boys' court than there is in the games they play. When they are offside in football, they have...
...lower house, many of the prisoners "have never committed a political act in their lives. Political activities have been excuses used against the poor who haven't the money to protect themselves from police corruption." There is even a kind of fixed scale of bribes. A suspect against whom nothing definite has been found may be able to buy his release for $3 or $4. More prosperous businessmen are held up for more; if gold or large amounts of currency are found in their possession when they are arrested, for instance, the rate can soar to several hundred dollars...
...whose good name should be as precious to them as to anyone. If a judge were-accused of dispensing justice in return for favors from relatives of litigants, he might be more than slightly upset. In any event, I do not consider corruption a small matter, any more, I suspect, than does Mr. Lubow...
...improvement in popular comprehension of the problem. Reasons: medical research linking overeating and heart disease, consumer campaigns against low-quality food and incomplete labeling, the counterculture's war on all things artificial, the conviction that thin is chic. The popular response, however, has been confused. Having begun to suspect that eating as usual is not good for them, Americans are often frustrated in their quest for something better. Dietary prescriptions tend to be contradictory. Nutritionists disagree on the merits of milk drinking, argue over the value of vitamins and debate long and learnedly over the role of diet...