Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the bottom of the icy Monongahela River near Clarksville. The investigation was broadening into other states, including a Boyle stronghold in east Tennessee, and more arrests were expected. Meanwhile, the Senate announced a major investigation into the U.M.W. But the FBI refused to reveal who, if anyone, they suspect wanted Jock Yablonski dead...
Stram, 47, is the only head coach remaining from the A.F.L.'s original class of 1960, and his Chiefs have won more games over the decade than any other team in the league. But Stram's abilities have long been suspect because Kansas City has often seemed to be one of those talent-laden teams that always lose the big game. The major disappointment came in the first Super Bowl in 1967, when Green Bay trounced the Chiefs 35-10. Since then, Stram has concentrated on building up his defense, choosing carefully in the draft, trading furiously offseason...
...York Daily News cried: "The late Adolf Hitler and Dr. Joe Goebbels would have loved that." The suggestion hardly goes that far, but there are two important counts against it. Such bodies rarely prove effective and, in this particular case, the council's independence might be suspect because its members would initially be appointed by the President...
From Sixty to Sixteen-Plus. "In poetry," Auden has written, "all facts and all beliefs cease to be true or false and become interesting possibilities." It is his refusal to give up possibilities that makes singleminded, typecasting critics suspect him of essential frivolity. The fellow is forever tinkering with meter. He is forever arguing that poetry is play. He has the nerve to say: " The unacknowledged legislators of the world' describes the secret police, not the poets." Can high art be as amusing as Auden makes it? Eliot once said that the purpose of art was to entertain...
...THOUGH I suspect that many of us share this periodic pettiness, I will henceforth talk about my elitism, rather than "ours." But it just might sound familiar...