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Word: suspectible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who deny the Southern intelligence have never considered the amazing ability of a Southern town to recognize Outsiders. Student-age people are instantly suspect, especially if they are wearing the standard-issue Civil Rights Worker uniform (blue jeans, t-shirt) and have "hippie communist" hair (i.e., long enough so the scalp doesn't show). When one of these creatures appears in town, locals gather quickly. If he speaks in strange and foreign tongues, he becomes the target of a public drive to oust him. And if he commits the ultimate heresy of talking to or LIVIN' WITH NIGGERS...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

Europeans openly suspect that the United States will overlook their interests in future bilateral talks with the Soviet Union to limit the spread of nuclear weapons...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Europeans Fear US - USSR Pact May Leave Them Out in the Cold | 10/5/1968 | See Source »

...left in doubt the question of the U.S. troop level and of the course of the war it self. Clifford issued his denial of Laird's statement only at the President's orders. Pentagon officers naturally supported the Defense Secretary's statements. Yet other Administration sources suspect that both Laird and Humphrey may well be correct in their predictions that U.S. combat forces will be reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: VIET NAM: THE NUMBERS GAME | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...offenses was less comprehensive than in the computerized '60s, the FBI reported a 66% increase in crime, taking population growth into consideration. The comparable figure for the '60s so far is 71%. While Nixon and Wallace charge that Supreme Court decisions bearing on eliciting confessions and the suspect's right to counsel have hindered law enforcement, studies conducted by the Los Angeles district attorney's office, the Yale Law Review and the Georgetown University Law Center show that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FEAR CAMPAIGN | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...Three. Still, many owners have not yet answered the recall notice. And for them the intensive search continues. This is by no means unusual. By current Detroit custom, every time a recall campaign is launched, certified letters go out to all owners of suspect cars. A few weeks later, a second batch of certified letters is sent to all those who have not responded. After that, the quest is turned over to Detroit's R. L. Polk & Co., which keeps track of car registrations across the country. Polk thereupon sets out to trace nonanswering owners through serial numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Search for the Defectives | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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