Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are many modern techniques for unearthing clues. For example, laboratories can now determine (by the "dermal nitrate test") whether a suspect has recently fired a gun: if he has, a paraffin cast of the back of his hand, when peeled off, will pull out particles of gunpowder imbedded in the skin. A new X-ray test reveals tiny particles of lead in clothing, showing that a bullet has been fired through it. Dr. Snyder reports that detectives have found the lie detector extremely useful. Though it is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts...
Dangling Man is a very carefully written book. As the publishers say, it is a sympathetic and understanding study of a young man struggling with his soul. It might be even more sympathetic if Author Bellow (who is not in the Army) ever seemed to suspect that, as an object of pity, his hero is a pharisaical stinker...
...Barrymore family has always been full of surprises. Grey, growling Lionel, 66 this week, has been etching for years well enough to exhibit with the New York Society of Etchers. Visiting musicians have found his musical conversation erudite. But not until this year did many people suspect that his musical hobby was anything more than hobbyesque...
...Industry Speaks. Though his statistics were suspect, Jimmy Moffett was right on the U.S. oil industry's beam. Next day 55 members of the Petroleum Industry War Council released a resolution against 1) the Arabian pipeline. 2) the continued existence of Harold Ickes' Petroleum Reserves Corp. They represented every U.S. oil company except Gulf, Texas and Standard of California, who are the only three beneficiaries of the Middle Eastern pipeline...
...book records the simple, human qualities of the fighting Marines. Sherrod watched them give away their last drops of precious drinking water to wounded men, saw them in the thick of battle giving away their last cigarets and bulging out the empty packs so their buddies wouldn't suspect it was the last one. They joked incessantly. In the face of whistling sniper-fire one boyish Marine was seen dashing madly across the beach-he was chasing a chicken for supper...