Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sign, however, that the Viet Cong has suffered any significant loss of its capability to strike when and where it likes. Viet Cong casualties are negated by the hundreds of new Communist infiltrators who stream across the border from "neutral" Laos into South Viet Nam every month. Intelligence officers suspect that the Viet Cong is moving in the new units for a big push during the rainy season, when the government's airlifting and air-striking power will be grounded. Already the reinforcements have emboldened the Viet Cong to strike prepared government positions for the first time in battalion...
There have been admirals in the Kentucky navy with more power and prestige than many Republican state chairmen in the South since the Civil War. As leaders of a small and suspect minority, many G.O.P. chairmen shrugged off any chance of winning state elections, dozed on dusty courthouse steps, and dreamed of the election of the next Republican President and the patronage that would flow down from Washington...
...remember the sails of Drake and Raleigh, and the balance sheets that once followed the flag around the world, are being asked to turn their backs on what little remains of the Empire and to abandon (or so many believe) yesterday's wide horizons for a nearby, still suspect coast. And yet, to an extent unforeseeable only a few years ago, the decision to join Europe's Common Market may also be a new adventure for Britain and restore British prestige and power. The outcome will influence the future of Europe and of the entire free world...
...lectures were quite an event. Admission was free and on a first - come - first - served basis; the students responded to this policy about the way one would suspect they might. Partial consolation for those unable to fight their way in was WGBH-TV's rebroadcast of each lecture later the nigh it was given...
...cotton swab, for example, can be rubbed over a suspect's hand, irradiated, and its gamma rays studied to determine whether the man has fired a gun. Infinitesimal traces of gunpowder components left on the hand by explosion gases show up unmistakably under neutron analysis...