Word: suspect
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...does become more equal (if the liberal ideal is established) then heredity will become an even bigger factor in determining I.Q. since the environment would become similar for everyone. While he claims to be disturbed by his findings, that he should push his weak arguments so vigorously, makes one suspect that his prediction might be based more on his personal biases...
Harvard Coach Bill McCurdy said of the meet, "Ever since the recent history of meeting has started, this has always been one of the toughest ones on the schedule for both teams and usually has been one right down to the wire... There seams to be no reason to suspect that Saturday won't be as tight a thing as ever...
...prejudices that divide, say, the Catholics and the Protestants of Northern Ireland. The Hindu inhabits a world peopled by deities, in which material things and the individual are fundamentally unimportant. He lives a life carefully circumscribed by a whole host of social, cultural and religious taboos. All outsiders are suspect, but beef-eating Moslems are particularly "unclean." (Moslems, for their part, regard Hindus and other nonbelievers as infidels.) Almost all of the subcontinent's Moslems-89%, by one authoritative estimate-are descendants of low-caste Hindus who converted to Islam, which emphasizes individuality and equality under a single deity...
Movie stars who write are like statues that bleed-highly suspect. But Betsy Drake, a minor star of the late '40s (Deep Are the Roots) who spent the '50s as Mrs. Gary Grant, has produced in Children, You Are Very Little a first novel with flair and ferocity...
Chomsky said that he had "a number of reasons" to suspect that his telephone had been tapped, pointing specifically to the recent grand jury investigation of him in relation to Daniel Ellsberg '52 and the leaking of the Pentagon Papers to the press...