Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt if Mrs. Roosevelt's silence was "shocked," on receiving Cardinal Spellman's letter. She was probably surprised on receiving such a thorough and adequate reply to her unnecessary attacks on our Catholic Church...
...Suppressed Report. Had Nationalist China been a hopeless cause? If so, U.S. policy apparently made a mad marriage with despair and defeat many years ago, and wasted billions on the dowry. But the State Department's own record raised doubt that this was always so. After V-J day, it concedes, China's economic situation was "surprisingly good and contained many elements of hope." As late as 1947, the Nationalists were "at the very peak of their military successes...
...midnight Boykin's guests had drunk, eaten and spoken their fill. Boykin happily picked up the tab-about $16,000 -and shook his big head in wonderment. "Think of it, by God," he thundered. "Over a billion people represented right here in one hall. I doubt if there's ever been anything like...
John P. Marquand, now leading the bestseller list himself, took a hard look at one of 1920's bestsellers and shrugged his shoulders: "What made [F. Scott Fitzgerald's] This Side of Paradise an immediate [hit] was no doubt its ... expose of the immoralities of the younger generation . . . Unfortunately, things have progressed so far that [today] one wishes that one's own children behaved as sensibly and nicely . . ." But Paradise was still "an exceptionally brilliant piece of work...
Less Work. Nevertheless, there was little doubt that business was on the downgrade. The Federal Reserve Board's production index, which had stood at around 166% of the 1935-39 average in late June, was estimated to have dropped another five points, off 34 points from 1948's postwar peak. In early July, the Department of Commerce reported, unemployment had edged over the 4,000,000 mark for the first time since 1942. Though there were an estimated 59.7 million at work, more than in any year except 1948, in some areas there were long lines...