Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting is a Vermont village adorned in the technicolor hues of Autumn. Harry, a stranger, is found dead at the top of the hill. The rabbit-hunting old man, the frustrated town matron, and the rebellious wife all suspect each is responsible for the evil deed himself. The first two are remorseful, the last seems pretty relieved...
Instead of 12 hours in class and an equivalent amount on outside work, the Tech student spends about 25 hours on each. Although labs are less frequent than one might suspect (most have about two three-hour labs every three weeks), it takes about 5 hours according to one B-plus student to "write up the voluminous reports they expect from...
...World War II Soviet fighter pilots boasted of a maneuver called taran, i.e., ramming an enemy plane when ammunition was exhausted and parachuting out. In the absence of reliable witnesses of such tactics, Western air-force men were apt to suspect the Russians of "shooting a line." Last week a startled group of Westerners saw a Soviet pilot perform the taran and live to lie about...
Dinneen soon turned to crime. The story that made his name broke in 1934 when he and another newsman split a $5,000 reward for helping to solve a murder case for which two men were wrongly jailed. After the two suspects were freed and paid $2,500 each by the state for false imprisonment, one of them met Dinneen on the street. He remarked on the reporter's reward money and asked: "What did it cost you to get it?" "Nothing," said Dinneen. "Why?" The ex-suspect then told how he and his companion had been forced...
Point of Honor. In Sacramento, after police picked him up as a Peeping-Tom suspect on a woman's complaint, Donald Erby indignantly denied the charge: "I was waiting for the old lady to go to bed so I could steal...