Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sure that his colleagues would still suspect that ordinary modern bacteria had worked their way into his broth, Dombrowski developed elaborate precautions to keep the invaders out (including germ-killing ultraviolet light, antiseptic solution, and gas flames), repeated a laborious process 180 times. In 86 cases the broth contained a culture of living bacteria which, Dombrowski is sure, could only have come from the ancient salt. Most of the bacteria were strains of Pseudomonas, whose nearest modern relatives live in the intensely salt water of the Dead...
Into the River. In France itself, S.A.O. is getting increasingly bold, and the police itself has become suspect. The Senate investigated alleged police brutality against Algerians in Paris, found that an undisclosed number of Moslem bodies (reliably said to be 60) had been thrown into the Seine or dumped under the trees of the Bois de Boulogne. At week's end police rounded up 30 leaders of the F.L.N. in France, seized $600,000 that they had collected from Moslem workers...
...maximum, and eighty per cent of the couples get married in the Church at the end of their first. A yearly ronda, or roundup, keeps the ancient system working smoothly. The alcades, traditional religious leaders of the community, stage midnight raids on all houses and cornfields where they suspect that unmarried couples are sleeping. These couples are apprehended and married, by force if necessary, the following Sunday in a mass Church ceremony. Some enterprising youths flee to the mountains during the ronda season, but those that are caught must marry...
Going steady also leads a statistically indeterminable number of girls to bed, generally with fears and trepidations rationalized by "he insists and I love him." Most girls' mothers suspect this situation and stay calm. "It is fathers," says Psychiatrist Carl Binger, "who need to be protected against the facts of life." If the upshot is a marriage while a girl is still in school, she often counts her education a success. "I NEVER, NEVER expected to leave without being married," writes a still unmarried Wellesley girl. Girls who get to be seniors without a man sometimes panic and hastily...
...volume called Tormented Women, the Truth About the Female Alcoholic, he becomes almost gallant, sympathetically acknowledging how difficult it must have been for his listener to buy the record. "You probably said it was for a friend. You couldn't allow even a total stranger-the saleman-to suspect that you, this nice-looking lady, was a lush...