Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gruesome Impact. Cabbie Miller became a suspect when one of his passengers reported that he had confessed to the murder. After he was arrested, Miller was held incommunicado for 52 hours, denied counsel and told that one of his pubic hairs had been found in the child's vagina. The police assured him that he was mentally ill and would be sent to a hospital if he confessed. Soon after Miller signed a police-written confession, he recanted...
Undergraduates sometimes suspect an elaborate show designed to dazzle them. But Finley's show does not play to special audiences, and it is continuous. Recalls Professor Cedric H. Whitman, a colleague in the Classics Department: "I hadn't seen John in a year. Then one day I met him on the street. His very first words to me were, 'Humanities 2 is like a mulch pile. Each year I throw in a few new ideas, and they sink down to the soil...
...revolution and penetrating governments abroad, it obviously lacked the understanding of political relationships in this country to realize that sooner or later its operations would be disclosed. As a result, American students traveling abroad, the international operations of every group from the Newspaper Guild to the Y.W.C.A., will be suspect...
...said Bursk, "Anything we got I suspect came from other contributors" to the Independence Foundation. "How much came from where is all pretty murky, but we had no indication of anything whatsoever expect that they [the Foundation] thought we were doing a good thing...
Lots of people, I suspect, could find The Lost Pilot a bridge into modern poetry. You should probably read it today. You could read most of it in two hours. Suffering succotash, you could read most of it twice in four hours, three times in six hours...