[Ads-l] susPECT, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

A police dispatcher in the 1948 movie _He Walked by Night_ says very
clearly,

"All units. On the broadcast of the susPECT arrested in the shooting of
Patrolman Rawlins. Cancel the cancellation. susPECT released from custody."

Cf. perMIT, n.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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