Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Detectives and Secret Servicemen continued to question the suspect-but Lee Harvey Oswald defiantly denied any guilt. Nonetheless, the police charged him formally with the murder of the President. Then, on Sunday morning, as a huge phalanx of guards prepared to transfer Oswald from Police Headquarters to the Dallas County Jail, a man moved toward him, stabbed a revolver toward Oswald's abdomen and fired. About two hours later, 1:07 p.m., the prisoner was dead. Thus the world might never learn what had gone on in that strange mind that had driven him to assassination. There was, however...
...Senate in a special election, came in second out of 29 candidates. In 1948 he tried again -and beat former Governor Coke Stevenson in a runoff primary by precisely 87 votes out of 988,295 cast. Stevenson of course charged fraud, but couldn't prove it-the suspect ballots had mysteriously disappeared...
...falls to earth as small, harmless tektites. They also detach large chunks of the lunar crust heavy enough to blast craters and form impactite when they hit the earth's surface. This has happened, the scientists think, at least three times in rather recent geological history. And they suspect that a lot of moon-stuff will be found on earth as soon as fellow scientists figure out how to identify...
Whatever he had read, Khari R. Baghdelleh had obviously not understood it. And no reasonable man would suspect the U.S. of joining South Africa in any international hanky-panky. Still, rumors about atomic weaponry have a habit of swelling rapidly into dangerous controversies. U.S. Representative to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson wasted no time in pointing out that the only scientific experiment now scheduled to involve both the U.S. and South Africa has nothing to do with bombs: it will be a delicate and determined effort to detect some elusive particles of matter...
...been fired for nonfeasance of breakfast, goes to law against her former employer and for a wonderful moment seems likely to be granted a large chunk of his estate in judgment. But the whirling begins too late and stops too soon. By this time the reader has begun to suspect that, soberly observed, Irish cuteness can be annoying...