Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year when politicians are deeply suspect, what better way to woo voters than by pronouncing a plague on both our major parties? Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 69, famed semanticist and ex-president of San Francisco State College, did precisely that in his campaign for the U.S. Senate from California. A backslid Democrat who now calls him self a "Republican unpredictable," Hayakawa explained the difference between the two this way: "Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 ft. from shore, would throw you a 25 ft. rope and tell you to swim the other 25 ft. because it would...
...with wording identical to the one that bore the footnoted confession. The hunt was on. Soon 117 papers with suspiciously similar phrasing and matching misspellings were discovered. The Honor Committee, composed of 88 cadets from the top two classes, formed seven subcommittees of three students each to study the suspect papers and interview their authors...
...years have shown, the academic side of the trip has been secondary to the trip itself: the knowledge gained through the school has not been anything studied formally so much as the result of experiences of the entire year. As Bateson put it, "I taught that year as I suspect most others in my place did. Since I believe studying systems of thought requires a rigorous background, I tried to give students an intellectual set of baggage to be filled up with suitable related experience. But after a point, of course, acquiring the baggage has to cease, and getting...
...Zeppo. "Yes, it's true, but it's nobody's goddam business," grumped Frank last week, suggesting that he had had high hopes of keeping his proposal a secret. But after dating Barbara for four years, he should have expected that his intentions would be suspect...
Unfortunately however, I found these articles were in part flawed by your neglect of basic criteria of good reporting. I consider some aspects of your writing critically uninformed, irresponsible and over-sensationalized. I suspect these are shortcomings of style and tone that have long characterized The Crimson...