Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was almost no substantiation of Kennedy's accusations. But there was none either, for Nikolai Redin's denials in his halting, faulty English. Yet the American judge had warned the jury it must find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before it could convict Redin...
Ezequiel Padilla finally shook hands with President-elect Miguel Alemán. The fraud charges would be dropped. Even if there had been occasional sleight of hand in the ballot counting, the final result was too conclusive to doubt: Alemán 1,800,829, Padilla...
...ancient Greeks, meteors meant "things in the air"; to modern Swedes, "things in the air" do not necessarily mean meteors. Although meteors are more plentiful in midsummer than at any other time of the year, Swedish military authorities had ample reason to doubt whether the ten flashing things that passed over their country during the last two months were of celestial origin. Fragments grounded near Sundsvall were identified by experts as having come "from a bomb, probably radio-controlled." If the Swedish authorities knew who fired the bombs, they were not saying. But the public unanimously thought of Russia...
...furnished Lend-Lease aid to the U.S.S.R. without exacting, in return, assurances of a pacific Soviet foreign policy in the postwar period. Present U.S. leaders, Bullitt believes, will make an even worse error if they pin their faith to the "insubstantial pageant" of U.N. Bullitt believes that no doubt remains that Soviet aims stop short at nothing less than domination of the globe. Western Europe, the Middle East and the British Empire will, says Bullitt, merely precede the American hemisphere as victims...
...ancient Greeks, meteors meant "things in the air"; to modern Swedes, "things in the air" do not necessarily mean meteors. Although meteors are more plentiful in midsummer than at any other time of the year, Swedish military authorities had ample reason to doubt whether the ten flashing things that passed over their country during the last two months were of celestial origin. Fragments grounded near Sundsvall were identified by experts as having come "from a bomb, probably radio-controlled." If the Swedish authorities knew who fired the bombs, they were not saying. But the public unanimously thought of Russia...