Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...littie rice as an act of deference. But soon, Gangacharan becomes like everyone else, hungry and helpless to do much about it. "There is no rice," a merchant swears to him. "I would not lie to a Brahmin." He would, of course, and does; the villagers all suspect it. There are food riots. Ananga (Babita), Gangacharan's wife, lowers herself to work grinding rice while some still remains. When that too is gone, she goes out to the fields to dig up roots and wild potatoes...
...desperation than serious attempts at coercion. Government reation to assassination has established a precedent of carte blanche policy,; when a soldier, policeman or official is killed, law is suspended and all citizens must open their homes to investigative patrols. If a search turns up someone who is a likely suspect in the eyes of the arresting officer, there is no opportunity to dispute guilt. Charges need not be made and trials are not required before sentence is handed down. Imprisonment is always imminent following arrest and execution is a very real possibility. Executions, like those of two Basque separatists...
...Rumsfeld has been in the middle of some bitter feuds. He won a power struggle against Robert Hartmann, Ford's longtime top aide and political adviser; Hartmann is now confined largely to speechwriting. Rumsfeld also clashed with Vice President Rockefeller over staff assignments, and Rocky's men suspect that he induced Campaign Chief Howard Callaway to call the Vice President a liability to the ticket for 1976. In addition, Rumsfeld has long been uneasily at odds with Henry Kissinger, feeling that he was taking credit-at the expense of Ford-for U.S. foreign policy decisions. Some of Rumsfeld...
...from that, the book sags with speculation ("Yet there is a great deal that [Pat Ellsberg] does not say, but it is impossible to believe she has not felt") and shameless padding ("Jill Volner certainly did not grow up in a way that would lead any rational observer to suspect that she would ever break new ground or occupy a particularly unusual position"). Such blathering cannot hide a central fact: from Abplanalp to Ziegler, the actors and extras in the Watergate drama were disproportionately male. Mo Dean grasps this and, while prattling on like an Anita Loos character, manages...
Besides, some experts suspect the defections from network programming are confined to a not much coveted demographic group-viewers 50 and older...