Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial in Somerset, Pa. last month went a State policeman who had helped to make Frank Monaghan confess. A husky. 25-year-old six-footer, Trooper Stacey Gunderman readily admitted that he had picked up the suspect, hurled him to the concrete floor, jumped on him-but only in self defense, after the old man had attacked...
...boat upon which [we] stood was riding the waves buoyantly enough," said Dr. Murchison last week, "but I suspect that in the hearts of each one of us we had a feeling of being already sunk. . . . We saw in perspective a nation committed to a social and economic program which made its costs of manufacture emerge from the level of world costs as the tip of Pikes Peak emerges from the surrounding Rockies. . . . Yet it was a nation engaged in the promotion of trade liberalization. . . . We did not know at this time that, within a few days, we would...
...Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...
...chief did not know that the egg was thousands of years old, that heavy rains had washed it out of a protecting alluvial deposit, but he did suspect that the white men in the town of Ambovombe might value it for their own curious reasons. That night the chief and a few companions carried the egg to Ambovombe. After hours of haggling a merchant gave them five head of cattle for it. This man recognized the egg as that of the extinct Aepyornis titan or elephant bird, a long-necked creature with massive legs on which it stood ten feet...
...become extinct until after the Glacial Ages, which is almost yesterday as geological time goes. Little is known of its habits, except that it ate vegetable matter, probably snakes and lizards too. In Madagascar during the past century, several nearly complete skeletons and many fragments have been found. Scholars suspect that Aepyornis titan may have given rise to the legend of a great bird called the roc, which is told in the Arabian Nights. About 25 football-sized Aepyornis titan eggs exist in various museums. Not content with possessing one of the finest specimens known, Collector Ray last week declared...