Word: suspectibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough image is not without foundation. To fight crime in the District of Columbia, Mitchell has advocated preventive detention for some suspects, a formula of uncertain constitutionality that would allow judges to withhold bail from men with criminal records. In the battle against organized crime and subversion, he has contended that the Justice Department should have far greater control than it now has to conduct wiretaps and plant electronic bugs (see THE LAW). To combat the narcotics traffic, he urged adoption last week of a national "no-knock" law that would empower federal agents to break into a suspect...
...hostage by the I.R.A. of modern day Ireland in reprisal for one of their own boys scheduled to be hung in the Belfast Jail. Fortunately for the audience, the soldier is hidden in the midst of a Dublin brothel, which is supposedly so hot the officials would never even suspect it of revolutionary activity. Full of whores, queers, and their fellow eccentrics, the place is a kind of Cambridge city councillor's nightmare of what happens if you don't regulate rooming houses...
Although Indians and Eskimos stand to suffer greatly from the fires, authorities suspect-but have not proved-that natives started a few of the blazes. The Government pays $46 to $65 a day for firefighters. A few weeks of these wages can mean nearly a year's living for a village family in the interior. Also, as more people move into hitherto virgin territory, there is a greater chance of accidental fires. Until recently, about 80% of Alaska's fires were caused by lightning, 20% by man; the ratio is now nearly reversed. Careless campers on the Kenai...
...Mills, has a one-word explanation for the fuss: "Sex." That is accurate enough-and the effect is carefully calculated. When Jones growls through a song in a black, bluesy style, the emotion seems to come more from the throat than the heart. The throat itself is a bit suspect: his keening, virile baritone has an alarming tendency to wobble. What seems to matter to female spectators is the way he writhes to a funky beat, tears off his tie, slashes the air rhythmically with both arms and strains his pelvis and thigh muscles against trousers that seem to have...
...Stan Hilditch, a manganese prospector, stumbled across an iron-ore outcropping near Mount Newman that assayed at almost the maximum possible purity. Australians had long known that iron ore could be mined in their country, but not until finds like Hilditch's did they suspect that it existed in such phenomenal abundance − an estimated 20 billion tons, about one-twelfth of the world's known reserves. Three years later, Australian legislators repealed a ban on iron-ore exports once enacted in the belief that there was only enough for domestic needs. Two big iron-ore mines opened...