Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simple Uncle Sap-ism? No; other new attitudes, drawn from two decades of experience, have clarified the giver-getter relationship. Only the naive among the givers expect lavish thanks; only the naive among the getters darkly suspect concealed U.S. motives. The U.S. now knows that arm twisting by withdrawing aid rarely works-and it usually knows better than to let foreign governments attempt aid-or-else blackmail. Moreover, the U.S. has backed away from any grandiose dreams of remaking the world; receiving nations nonetheless candidly want a large helping of U.S. machines, techniques and comforts...
...Prisons Act. In the past two months, the newspaper's office has been raided four times, and security police have seized all documents and photographs of prisons or prisoners. They have also visited sources whose names had only been discussed by Gandar on the telephone, leading him to suspect that his line is being tapped. Though the Mail has been campaigning for nothing more radical than a judicial enquiry into prison practices, Verwoerd's state radio and the Afrikaans newspapers that support him regularly describe the English-language Mail as "a source for the Communist and Afro-Asian...
...well as being arrogant, Steffens was a drastically uncultured man, and I suspect Mr. Lasch uses "culture" as nothing more than the definiendum of That-which-identifies-the-intellectual...
...adopted many of the most controversial criminal-law rules only recently imposed on state courts by the U.S. Supreme Court. Civilian courts have not yet adopted some rules that have become military practice. The Supreme Court, for example, has yet to say that state police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and silence invalidates his confession-a requirement that Congress imposed on the military 15 years ago. A military defendant is also entitled to full pretrial "discovery" of all evidence against him-a virtually unheard-of rule in state courts...
Police officials have criticized the court's decisions for making pretrial treatment of criminals more difficult. The court has restricted the right of police to interrogate suspects without lawyers, and limited the time a suspect can be questioned before he is arraigned...