Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have the maimed Spaniard secure, my slaves and my ships, nay the whole city will be safe." But when Cervantes finally got back to Spain, he found nothing but poverty and idleness. He had a wife, a mistress, and an illegitimate child to support. Says Biographer Bell: "We may suspect that his life at Madrid at this time was not unlike that of the soldier described in El Suez de los Di-vorcios [The Judge of the Divorce Court, a tale by Cervantes]. According to his satirical wife, this soldier earns nothing, goes to Mass, stands gossiping at the Guadalajara...
Astronomers get most of their information by studying and analyzing the light of the bright stars. They know almost nothing about the smaller bodies in distant space which are not self-luminous, i.e., planets, meteors, comets. But they suspect a great deal and are forever looking for proof. Last week, in Science magazine, Russian-born Astronomer Otto Struve, head of the observatories of Chicago and Texas Universities, described some delicate observations that allowed him to spot tiny meteors 250 light years (about 1,500,000,000,000,000 miles) away...
Jailbait. In Philadelphia, sirens wailed and searchlights glared across Eastern State Penitentiary's front lawn as well-armed cops cautiously approached a man who was quite obviously excavating a tunnel into the prison. Things quieted down when the suspect turned out to be digging worms...
...Examine the suspect's hands for callouses . . . but this is not conclusive.... If his heart is calloused, he's your man." In short, the woods were full of them, and a Communist couldn't be too careful. A point the Worker did not mention: what to do with the capitalist after he was tracked down...
...resolution the ad hoc committee could perform a desirable service. Although it is not noted for its pliability, the University might abandon tradition if urged by a large number of students and organizations. But the third part of the resolution makes the motives of those who passed it extremely suspect. They appear to be inordinately concerned with getting their names or the names of organizations to which they may belong associated with that of Mr. Wallace. There was no question of the competence of AVC to handle the details of the Wallace visit, nor was there any doubt that...