Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liver is not conspicuously subject in France, where every foodstuff is weighed for its effect on the foie. In the age-old belief that eggs overtax young livers, the average French parent would sooner poach a hare than an egg for the children. Chocolate, butter and cream are as suspect as they are essential to French cuisine. The French even treat their dogs and cats for crises de foie...
...they guessed, the night watchman must suspect that it was not just amour they were after. Sure enough, soon after Cynthia and her lover entered the darkened office, the door burst open and the watchman studied them under a powerful flashlight. Finally, he blurted, "I beg your pardon, madame, a thousand times," and fled down the corridor. Before going to work on the safe, Cynthia had taken the simple precaution of removing all her clothes...
...with other company executives, he dabbles in Idaho Republicanism, puts himself "somewhere between Goldwater and Rockefeller, but probably on the liberal side." He turned down an offer to run for the U.S. Senate last year "because the company wasn't quite mature enough to leave alone then." Idahoans suspect that his high ambitions will in time tempt him out onto the stump...
...from their outfits in the confusion as the Germans advanced. Zotov is drawn to the man. He talks to him about his own life in Moscow, about the straggler's wife and children. Then, on the slightest possible evidence, he has to betray his new friend as a suspect spy. Vaguely, but with deep melancholy, Zotov begins to feel a sense of personal guilt, to comprehend the impossible strain that the Soviet regime has placed upon all human relationships...
...head of Preston's studio assigns him to produce a new series: if it succeeds, he gets promoted; if it fails, he loses his job. There is the plot. Alexander tries to use it as a vehicle for a comedy and also, I suspect, to raise some ethical questions about Honesty. On the first score he bets .333; on the latter...