Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Jeffrey S. Kahn said that police would use computerized trespasser descriptions to quickly identify previously-warned suspects. The law requires a policeman to issue a warning before a trespass arrest and limits the amount of time he may detain a suspect...
...difficult to escape the suspicion, especially in societies with more or less Judeo-Christian moral standards, that pornography, so often not really erotic but merely dehumanizing, can be a symptom of social disorder. Sex has often been used as a political weapon for rebellion (and is therefore suspect in totalitarian societies). Open sexuality can be seen as a sign of freedom, yet it can also run riot to the point where it becomes both destructive and compulsive and thus ultimately unfree...
...group of people could reach a conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt in something in which nothing is clear." But others felt that the defendant had got what she deserved. The reaction of James Strauch, a New York accountant, was typical: "After she was kidnaped, I suspect they persuaded her to join up, and she went along. Now she will suffer the consequences, just as anyone else would under the same circumstances...
...spoofing, you sense in Donleavy an inverted romanticism, a genuine attachment to the order and chivalry of the aristocracy, a sadness that living is not what he would conceive it or hope it to be. In the jacket photo, Donleavy's face is wary, truculent even, thoroughly distrustful. You suspect the jaunty mien, the gentlemanly deportment, is a carefully constructed guise. "I live and draw a flow of gold," Balthazar B thinks to himself, "from a dead father's reservoir of riches. Behind my own lonely elegance. Where no one will ever again get to know me. And speak less...
...Studying the structure of a microbe called Halobacterium halobium -the organism that gives red herring their distinctive color-he found a purple pigment that was chemically similar to "visual purple," a pigment in the retinas of animal and human eyes. The similarity led Stoeckenius and his co-workers to suspect that the pigment helped the organism use light for its life processes...