Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President for life, his foes apparently decided that bombs were now the only effective form of protest. Nkrumah's special branch cops combed government offices, frisked members of Parliament for arms outside the Assembly building. Even the troops he had called in to guard the city were suspect. The bombs used in recent weeks. his police discovered, were of the type stocked by the Ghanaian army...
...shirtsleeve sessions. When the council fathers have voted approval of a decree, the Pope will convene a public session to announce the news to the world. At one audience this summer, John suggested that the council "could go on for two or maybe three years." Some Roman observers suspect that so long a council would come close to bankrupting the Vatican; the first session alone will cost the church at least $6,400,000. Most council experts believe that Vatican II will convene from Oct. 11 to Dec. 8, return after Easter for a second session of about two months...
...like most political ironies, this one is explicable. James Reston recently gave one explanation of it when he suggested that Congressmen reduce appropriations because they see no excuse for Europe's reluctance to contribute more to the program and because they dimly suspect that Europe will begin to supply funds if the U.S. won't. That is understandable, and a part of what is going on, but the fundamental reasons are probably much simpler: Congress not only sees little evidence that the foreign aid program is working, but really does not know what...
Another blue-baby mother has had five normal children. Why the less fortunate ones lose their babies, Drs. Taussig and Neill are not certain. They doubt that it is simply because of oxygen shortage, but suspect that a little-understood hormone deficiency is involved...
When they see a patient whose skin has turned yellow, doctors automatically suspect liver disease. In virtually all such cases, the white of the eye is similarly discolored. But a pair of Cincinnati ophthalmologists were puzzled when a patient appeared with a yellow glow all over his face and body, extending even to his palms and soles. The whites of his eyes, however, were unaffected, thus ruling out liver disease. It turned out, report Drs. Ira A. Abrahamson Sr. and Jr. in the A.M.A.'s Archives of Ophthalmology, that the man knew he had cataracts. Like night fighter pilots...