Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photographs every two weeks. Occasionally he got money-an average amount was $12.50 for a batch of photographs. "I wasn't in this for money. I was disgusted, and it was part of my plan to get revenge," he said. No one in his outfit seemed to suspect anything...
...device was designed to permit police to act on "reasonable suspicion" rather than the higher standard of "reasonable belief." Delaware, Rhode Island and New Hampshire have adopted the Uniform Arrest Act, which allows a policeman to stop, question, detain and frisk any person "whom he has reasonable ground to suspect" of having committed a crime. Unless there is probable cause for actual arrest, the person must be released after two hours...
Lace & Auto Jacks. When Seretse and Ruth finally returned to his tribal capital of Serowe in 1956, there was much prejudice to overcome. Being white, Ruth was suspect. Moreover, a set of twins, born two years later, seemed to spell disaster to Bamangwato witch doctors. But Ruth-often wearing a silk blouse and tight white pants-moved through the mud-hut villages dispensing good will, wiping blood from injured herdsmen with a lace handkerchief, and fighting for seven years to build a clinic. Eventually she became known as Mwa Rona (Our Mother), and the antiwhite fears of the tribesmen faded...
...Tomasello's own comments, although probably sincerely meant, appeared suspect, because he seemed to be using drugs as an excuse to attack the University. Without ever naming Harvard or M.I.T., he asked that "instead of taking in these students who are anti-the-country and anti-the-leadership, these tax-free institutions should screen whom they let in." And then, in a reference to recent marches in protest of U.S. Vietnam policy, he urged, "Let's get some patriotism at these institutions...
Reversal of his conviction does not mean that Miller will go free. Even though the police ruined any chance of his using evidence from the suspect's car, the state prosecutor is already pressing for a second trial, hoping for a second conviction...