Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble is the Corporation's rule forbidding groups that grace their name with Harvard to perform on commercially sponsored shows. Why the administration maintains this rule is still none too clear, except that it obviously involves fear for Harvard's reputation. Perhaps the Corporation is afraid that people will suspect it of selling the use of Harvard to purveyors of soap and toothpaste. Why anyone, however, should confuse a student group's appearance on radio with official endorsement of its sponsor any more than he confuses football sportscasts with official endorsement of Atlantic White Flash is beyond...
...press which he says is opposing him, Stevenson said that in "the two-party" U.S. there is danger of getting a "one-party press." But he was not worried because "my party has done all right in recent elections . . . People are smarter than many politicians think, and sometimes I suspect that even editors underestimate them...
...British Counterintelligence, a body which requires gentlemanly behavior of its agents. British spycatchers are not permitted, as Gestapo agents were, to pull out fingernails and toenails, or to crack open stubborn skulls with screw-hoops of steel. In some cases they are not even permitted to call a suspect a liar; they must say politely: "I suggest that your answer to my last question contained certain inaccuracies." Moreover, since no confession obtained under duress is valid in British law, the catcher must take care not to hector or bully his man beyond a certain point. The professional British spycatcher must...
...suspect has a book in his bag gage, the spycatcher has a dreary task ahead. The volume must be taken apart and every line of every page put under the microscope. Pinto's toughest example: "a closely printed dictionary, 700 pages in length," brought into Britain by a "Dutch refugee." Not until page 432 did Pinto find what he was looking for -"a tiny pinprick" under one letter. Other pinpricks followed under other letters; when written down in order, they gave the addresses of Nazi agents in Stockholm and Lisbon...
...more doubtful or suspicious a [suspect's] story is, the more the examiner should appear to accept...