Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foyt always runs well at Indianapolis. Last year he had the fastest cars at the track for himself and Roger McCluskey. Foyt sat on the pole for the second time in his career, and led the race until his engine came apart. There's no reason to suspect that his engine will come apart tomorrow. A. J. Foyt would like to retire, and it has been rumored that he will when he wins the 500 again. With so many really competitive teams entered in a relatively long race, there can be no odds-on favorite. But there's a good...
...migrés from Guadaloupe and Martinique came to Trinidad with slaves and a system of savage punishment. Blacks had their noses split and their ears slashed off for minor offenses. Hangings, quarterings and decapitations were common occurrences. A simple method of extracting information was to truss up a suspect in a particularly unnatural position and then suspend him so that his weight was supported where the ball of his foot met a wooden stake...
...Stravinsky at eighty-eight is a lean and dragonish filament of a man, small, swift, acerbic, who has with the utmost restraint and greatest reluctance declined the invitation of fate to become the Russian Groucho Marx. His latest conversation book, Retrospectives and Conclusions, is presumably his last, although I suspect he will confound his critics, who have persisted for the last decade in treating him posthumously, by transubstantiating his immortal remains into yet another book, entitled Scances and Exhumations. Stravinsky employs a gleeful and at times parasitic mastery of Americanese to lightly convey his scorn of cultural dipsomania, sentimentality, vulgarity...
...their vinyl bassinets and many of us haven't been able to dirty ourselves ever since. Last week, I returned to one of the scenes of our collective baptism, a junior high on Long Island. I didn't formerly attend this particular school, but what reason was there to suspect that it was any different than my own, a thousand miles away...
...moth's enemies, including a parasitic wasp that lays its eggs on the caterpillars, have apparently staged a comeback. And many biologists suspect that the new ivy around the Bio Labs is less moth-eaten than the sprayed ivy in the Yard and Business School areas...