Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Metternichian minuet that seemed strangely out of place in the nuclear age, both Kosygin and Lyndon Johnson at week's end delicately refrained from making the first move. Kosygin feared that if he asked for a Washington meeting with the U.S. President, the Arabs would suspect him of a double cross, while Peking, which has already accused Moscow of "a perfidious betrayal, a monstrous sellout," would crow even more loudly. As for Johnson, White House Press Secretary George Christian said that if Kosygin wished to sit down and talk, the President "will, of course, be glad...
...Real Heroes. Tampa's three-day upheaval began when a white patrolman shot and killed a 19-year-old Negro burglary suspect as the youth ran from him. The patrolman claimed that the youth was about to get away when he pulled the trigger at a distance of 25 ft. Negroes who were standing near by said it was a much closer shot; indisputably, the victim was shot in the back. With that, the mobs began gathering. Arsonists set fires in stores, a lumberyard, half a dozen vacant houses. After rioters broke into a gun store on Cass Street...
...floor, fully clothed. Each had a .38 slug in the head. They had been dead 43 hours. Investigators speculated that the killer had not meant to shoot Elaine, but that the first bullet caromed off Orville's forehead and tore into her temple. The prime suspect: Jack Kirschke...
...highest conversion rates occur in areas that, before Sukarno's downfall, were most heavily infested with Reds. Says a Baptist missionary in Djakarta: "When Communism failed in its promise to provide these people with an inner conviction, they switched to Christianity." Less sanguine, some church leaders suspect that all too many of the converts have switched less out of faith than fear; public opinion still links atheism with membership in the banned, decimated Indonesian Communist Party...
...long been clear in the case of extensive burns, when the body builds too much scar tissue, and in rheumatoid arthritis, when the inflammation becomes recurrent and does permanent, crippling damage. Reports at Brook Lodge also implicated an overzealous inflammatory reaction in some kidney diseases, and made it a suspect in two still commoner diseases, diabetes and even atherosclerosis...