Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angelo himself did not even suspect his powers until he was well into manhood. A poor boy who never got beyond the third grade, he was an acrobat and stilt-walker in a circus until one day in 1934, when he fell off his stilts and broke his skull. When he came to, as he tells it now, he amazed both himself and his nurse by his clairvoyant ability to recite her past. He set himself up in a back street as the Mago di Napoli and practiced clairvoyance...
...tiny specimen of outer skin, taken painlessly, is enough to show the true chromosomal sex of any individual. Dr. Barr told Toronto's Academy of Medicine. If doctors suspect a sex mixup in a baby, this test should be made at once, he urged, so that operations to straighten things out can be performed early. Even more important, the child can be reared from the start as a member of its rightful...
...Nwapa in a BBC broadcast, "the sun is rising not in the East but in the West . . ." The Colonial Office agrees: "The Gold Coast is talked about with surprise in Johannesburg slums, among tribes outside Nairobi longing for more land, and in Uganda where men nurse secret grievances and suspect every . move we make. If it fails, a great hope will die in Africa. If it succeeds, then we may begin the addition of a new continent to the political world that can be our friend...
...faster. Doctors have believed that this effect is transmitted through the more primitive brain centers. The farmhand had these primitive centers intact, so his reaction to an insulin injection should have been normal. Surprisingly, it was not. His stomach simply did not respond. Why? Dr. Doig and his colleagues suspect that insulin must work through higher brain centers after...
...support Chiang Kai-Shek's government." Without clarification, the meaning of this statement is obscure and highly disturbing. Foreign Service officers wonder whether the Board is accusing Vincent of actively pursuing a contradictory policy, or whether "declared and established policy" means a party line with which private disagreement is suspect. As long as this is unexplained, any foreign officer must question the extent of his freedom to interpret events in his own special area. If his policy reports cannot disagree with a "declared and established" course, his freedom is as limited as that of his colleagues in the Russian foreign...