Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Nhu himself would make a bid for power, and some Americans think that he might be more efficient, having shown administrative ability in the strategic-hamlets program. But the U.S. still doubts that any of the available alternatives to Diem would be a real improvement. American policymakers also suspect that a coup would only set off a chain reaction of other coups until some strongman finally emerged, and that in the meantime there would result a power vacuum in which only the Viet Cong could operate...
...morning last week, at Caracas' big La Planta jail, a dope suspect named José Rafael Cariola ("El Gorila") jumped a guard and grabbed his rifle. El Gorila and his cronies then stalked one guard after another until by late morning they had rounded up and disarmed 25 of La Planta's guards. By this time close to half of the prison's 800 inmates were on the loose...
Alan Gartner, who is also national treasurer of the civil rights organization said that the Harvard Trust first became suspect when no CORE official "could recall having seen a Negro in a customer-contact position in a Cambridge bank...
Ultraviolet light, the Harvard researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine, produces photo-sensitization by activating the porphyrin already present in the blood and skin. They suspect that it also increases the production of porphyrin. This is more than medicine has known before about the elusive disease, but it is still far from suggesting a cure. For Mrs. Carlson and her fellow sufferers, the only prescription remains to avoid sunlight like the plague...
...seems convinced that what Playboy really needs is more sex, not less. "If the secret psyche of the typical young male adult could be probed," wrote Hefner in an apparently endless editorial on "The Playboy Philosophy" that has already been running in serial form for eight months, "we suspect that we probably err in the direction of less emphasis on sex than the average, rather than more...