Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leave listeners wondering if, after all, a rhetoric demanding sacrifice in the face of endless struggle is entirely congenial to values outside the cold war. Yet last night, explaining why it is that the U.S. has decided to resume atmospheric nuclear tests, Mr. Kennedy abandoned much of his customary, suspect, rhetoric. Addressing the substantive parts of his argument to a relatively small, relatively sophisticated, and passionately concerned section of the populace, he constructed a detailed and closely reasoned justification for testing that can scarcely fail to be extra-ordinarily persuasive...
...internal malformations in newborn babies, plus an upsurge in one hitherto rare condition: phocomelia or "seal limbs." so called because the hands and feet are like flippers, attached close to the body with little or no arm or leg. Hamburg University's Pediatrician Widukind Lenz. 43. began to suspect Contergan because he found that in many cases the mothers had taken it late in the second month of pregnancy, when the fetus' limbs are forming...
...boom-the "gloom boom." They fearfully suggest that their businesses will collapse because their annual growth rate may fall from 30% to a mere 15%. And though Japan's foreign trade balance in December was the most favorable in a year, many Japanese darkly suspect that they are being frozen out of international trade. In Europe's Common Market, they see only a wall designed to keep Japanese goods out of Europe. The 19-nation Geneva agreement on textiles published last week will, in fact, open new markets in Europe for Japanese cotton goods, but this does...
...more than a four-year period in the life of an individual whose life-line logically includes an experience like Harvard. If so, the changes that occur in college are simply the normal maturing of the kind of students which that college attracts. There is reason to suspect that if Harvard did not exist, these students would grow older in a very similar manner in some other setting...
Freedom Is Crime. The hero, Hans Barlach, is a retired Swiss police commissioner, convalescing from an operation for cancer. He comes to suspect that a notorious doctor who performed experimental operations without anesthetic in Nazi concentration camps may be the same surgeon who is running a swank sanitarium near Zurich. Barlach commits himself to the sanitarium in the hope of exposing the evil M.D., but finds himself trapped and helpless in Dr. Emmenberger's grisly suite of torture chambers...