Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gets through its business with commendable speed, although often we come to believe that it is accomplished through log rolling and the docile follow-the-leader voting of men who respect the machine which elected them. In the Senate again, business is undoubtedly oftentimes outrageously delayed, but we often suspect that the delays are caused by independent-thinking Senators who refuse to vote till they have aired the entire question...
...suspect," said Herr Bugammen darkly, "that some of the heroin listed as 'exports' is being peddled in Switzerland. We are going to stop that. We have just arrested 22 suspects in Zurich. Some of them, I regret to say, are young girls...
Into the Senate chamber shortly before noon one day last week limped William Scott Vare, Senator-suspect from Pennsylvania. His left side paralyzed, he leaned on a cane and the arm of his Philadelphia physician...
Ever since the murder 13 months ago of Arnold Rothstein, one of its most amiable gambler-racketeers (TIME, Dec. 24). Manhattan has been kept acutely Rothstein-conscious. Last week, when the State's sole suspect in hand-burly, big-jawed Gambler George A. McManus-was acquitted, the Rothstein spotlight seemed likely to flicker out, leaving another famed Manhattan murder in unsolved darkness...
...Leonids have shown up regularly three times a century for more than a thousand years, but failed to appear when last due at the beginning of the present century. Astronomers suspect that their failure was due to the huge planet Jupiter being too close to their orbit and pulling them off schedule...