Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurt a bit." In Philadelphia, police accosted a suspicious-looking stranger, asked him what he was doing. "Waitin' for my partner," he said. They asked: "Where's he?" The stranger replied: "Robbin' a house down the street." In Dallas police frisked a burglary suspect. He was wearing: a pair of overalls, two pairs of trousers, two swim suits, two suits of long underwear, seven pairs of shorts, eight pair of women's lace panties. In his pockets were: three knives, five pairs of dice, two pairs of scissors, five fountain pens, nine corks, a ring...
...Churchill has given more than a hint that he is for No. 2. That, I suspect, would be my own choice. . . . The Moslems of North-west India are the Protestant Boys of the East, as convinced as any Belfast Orangemen that the Protestant Boys shall carry the Drum, and much better fighters, I should say, than either we or the Germans. They think so themselves...
Obviously most of Russia's remaining might was too busy to parade last week; but, just as obviously, Russia has lost very heavily in four months of war. Exactly how heavily only a few people know, and what they say about it is suspect. Stalin said last week that the Russians had lost 350,000 killed, 378,000 missing, 1,020,000 wounded. Hitler said Russia had lost...
...what goes in each article, not the entire student body. All three were at fault for failing to see the potential dynamite that lurked in the seeming innocence of the words. When the dynamite exploded it was up to them to make amends as best they could. We suspect that the apologies which they rendered, honestly and sincerely, must have helped the situation more than any action by the administrative authorities could have...
Last week the Government charged a wharf superintendent with theft of 232 tons of U.S. molasses, counted up 27,000 food prosecutions since rationing began. Scotland Yard puzzled over four blackout murders in eight days, searched vainly for a lone suspect, monocled, mysterious "Dr. Trevor...