Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombs-though some specific categories, notably 750-pounders, which B-52s have used so effectively against Viet Cong entrenchments, are in short supply. Officers in the field concede that the U.S. has recently cut back on some of its "preplanned bombing strikes"-missions that are called on the slightest suspicion of Communist military activity in an area. However, military men in Saigon say they might have curtailed those raids anyway, since they were not causing enough measurable damage to be worthwhile...
...grilling. Because both convictions were final before Escobedo, they pose the retroactivity riddle. ¶ Ernesto Miranda, 23, an "emotionally ill" truck driver, received 25-and 30-year sentences in 1963 for robbing a woman and kidnaping and raping an 18-year-old girl. Miranda was picked up on suspicion: both victims identified him in a lineup. He talked freely, was neither told nor knew of his right to counsel. The Arizona Supreme Court took the "hard" Escobedo line, upheld his conviction. ¶Roy A. Stewart, 28, a sixth-grade dropout, was suspected in 1963 of mugging a number...
...British Novelist Anthony Burgess flew home from Brunei, where he had spent five years as an educational consultant to the Sultan, to undergo examination for a suspected tumor of the brain. The suspicion proved baseless, and after six weeks in London's National Hospital, Burgess was released, sound as a pound. In most men, the experience would have produced no more than a sigh of relief. In Burgess, it excited the wild flight of imagination that produced this novel...
...Minh and was swept by the fever for freedom from the French. In the years of war against Paris, the French suspected, probably rightly, that the lithe bonze with the burning eyes was helping Ho's Viet Minh front. They once jailed him for ten days on suspicion that he was a Communist, but they could not prove it?nor has anyone since, despite the taint of suspicion that still lingers in many quarters. More probably, like many a loyal South Vietnamese of that day, Tri Quang aided Ho's campaign not for love of Communism but for hatred...
...youth of America is their oldest tradition," observed J. Oscar Wilde. Although the U.S. is not as young as it used to be, it still views all kinds of tradition with more youthful irreverence than any other nation, past or present. In fact, there is a widespread suspicion that tradition-the sense of continuity that is part faith, part convention and part habit-is disappearing altogether from the American scene...