Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime literally never got off the ground underlined the harshness of the verdicts. According to official Soviet accounts, the defendants plotted to commandeer a single-engine AN2 in Leningrad last June 15, fly it to the Swedish town of Boden and ask for asylum in Israel. Many Sovietologists suspect that the eleven walked into a trap prepared by the KGB, the Soviet secret police. For one thing, they were arrested before they even set foot aboard the plane. Within an hour after their arrest, 40 Jewish homes from Riga to distant Kharkov were ransacked by policemen with search warrants. During...
Ungar and other researchers strongly suspect that the chemical mechanism for such learning is governed by RNA molecules in the brain cells. By directing the assembly of the body's 20 or so amino acids into the proper combinations, these master molecules are apparently able to make an imprint of a memory or learning experience. Ungar is convinced that chemical processes similar to those in the brains of his rats also occur in the brains of higher animals, including man. If this is indeed true, it may eventually be possible to enhance man's knowledge and to treat...
...jigsaw puzzle-indeed broke off from one or two immense land masses along volcanically active cracks in the earth's crust known as mid-ocean ridges. Part of this undersea mountain chain, which girdles the earth like stitching on a baseball, has now been identified as the prime suspect in still another major geological mystery: the raw and atypical terrain of the American West...
...Absolute things like this pledge don't interest us," he added. "The defense problem is not such a cut-and-dried affair. I suspect no one in the Union of Concerned Scientists would work on MIRV, but as to the ABM, for instance, that depends on what kind of ABM. Probably about nine-tenths of us would work on a laser...
...MIGHT suspect that even one of Paramount's Assistant Vice-Presidents in Charge of Marketing and Promotion could have foreseen the folly inherent in previewing Love Story before a specially-invited Harvard audience. But then, what with the phenomenal success of Erich Segal's literary afterthought of the same name as well as the almost certain success of the film, well, what the hell, with all that behind you, it was about time you took a few chances...