Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invocation of the Almighty . . . is a serious business. God is not easily flattered, and we suspect that His interest in this reference to Him is conditioned strictly [by] the extent to which our national decisions and policies and actions are 'under...
...questionnaire was evidently rushed to completion before the faculty members could influence its contents. Details were announced in the press on the very day, February 2, that the special conference was held. At the time Size-more reportedly told the faculty members that Georgia's list of suspect organizations was to be substantially like the U.S. Attorney General's list except that certain so-called fascist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, would not be included. Statewide protest attacked this omission and the Klan was put back on the list so that in final form it sub-stantially copies...
...below the list of approximately 250 "suspect" organizations appended to the questionnaire it is stated quite clearly that the list "is not an allegation or an expression of opinion by the State of Georgia that the organizations listed thereon are in violation of State or Federal laws." Yet from these organizations, security officers are supposed to determine "reasonable grounds" for dismissal
...habit-forming. Neurotics have a vicious-circle routine: goof balls to wake them up and keep them going through the day, then barbiturates to still the jags and jitters and lull them to sleep. Over-the-road truck drivers take amphetamine to keep awake, and highway authorities suspect that many unexplained accidents result from the hallucinations which it causes in some subjects. Dieters sometimes take amphetamine to cut their appetite, but most doctors consider this dangerous. Convicts used to chew the Benzedrine wafers from inhalers to get a quick lift, until the manufacturers changed the formula...
...been intrigued by the strange similarity of two superb 15th-century tapestries. In both of them, the same principal characters were prominently featured. Their borders were identical in design, and each had been restored along one side. But the two sections did not fit together, and Rorimer began to suspect that there was a missing middle section. Last year he found just what he was looking for in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. Brought together, the three sections matched perfectly in design, color and thread count...