Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspect there are hundreds of Swifty-sparked readers who haven't been heard from. So, as an extra inducement for you to send in your inspirations, we've decided to offer five-year subscriptions to the TIME Reading Program as prizes for the best TIME Swifty and the best ADverb received by July 15th. Every two months for the next five years, winners will receive three or four books, especially selected by TIME'S editors for the importance of their ideas and the excellence of their writing. We may even award more than one prize in each...
Eisenhower also seemed to suspect that the Democratic Administration would give Republicans none of the political credit for passage of civil rights legislation-but would love to blame the G.O.P. for failure. Late last week, in a scathing speech to a Republican group gathered at Hershey, Pa., Ike said: "To Republicans, 'the rights of men' is a living doctrine. To our opponents, it is a campaign catchphrase, a political gimmick to be cunningly exploited as part of the great mosaic which presents a public but deceitful image, known far and wide as concern for the common man-protection...
...that the phrase "He's one, you know" earns points only when it is applied to third basemen, racing drivers, and Government officials of Cabinet rank. It is tacitly conceded that serious plays must be about homosexuality unless they are about racial prejudice, that all bachelors are suspect, and men with wives and children are fooling no one either. Nobody admits to loving his mother...
...game enough to plow through it, Notes also offers some less harrowing dividends. During the Panama campaign, the wanderer reports, "Balboa's dog received the pay of a crossbowman." A Christian named Bohemund "sent to the Greek emperor a cargo of thumbs and noses." In the case of suspected witches or sorcerers, the Devil's mark "will be found under the lip or upon the fundament, if the suspect be a man. Where women are concerned one should meticulously examine the breasts and pudenda...
...despises corrupt literary cocktail parties, Algren seems to have survived a lot of them without letting his hosts or fellow guests suspect his feeling. The "throngs" that saw him off on his temporary emigration were as corrupt a crew of notable names as ever were dropped. His acquaintance included Bennett Surface, a characteristic Algren joke-name notable for being an even dimmer joke than any pulled by the original. And the pansy routine Algren sets going between a literary character named Norman Manlifellow and a "deeply tanned" writer named Giovanni is good for a yak, even though the material might...