Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief sufferers were 111 of the Batory's 683 passengers who were hustled off to Ellis Island because of "doubtful citizenship," medical reexamination, or some lingering doubt about their bonds. (Normally only a dozen to a score of passengers on an arriving vessel are held for inquiry.) Most, if not all, would speedily be freed after a session with a board of inquiry. This week, the Batory sailed for England again-32 minutes late and with 838 passengers this time. The Government looked a little small with its big empty...
Maugham called it "magnificent," and added, "there is no doubt that Graham has painted me in a mood and with an expression I sometimes have, even without being aware...
...will take place at Harvard, President Conant must go beyond opposition to "witch-hunts." He must state categorically what criteria will and what criteria will not be used for keeping Communists off the faculty. He must do all this first, because until he does, there will be room for doubt within the Harvard academic community. Second and most important, he must do this to re-establish Harvard as a leader in the fight to preserve the faltering integrity of the American university...
...Johnson's legal mind there seemed to be a slight, nagging doubt about the propriety of a shift from Democratic moneyman to Secretary of Defense. Not long ago he told a few friends of his talk with Harry Truman. "I told the President," Johnson explained, "that I felt I had disqualified myself for any federal appointment." But Forrestal and the President "insisted" and "I had no choice ... I accepted the position, tough as I knew it was going...
...voice of Amerika. But Editor Sanders has a hunch. Says she: "We never preach, brag, quarrel or draw invidious comparison^ Ours is not a frontal attack; it is a loYig-range campaign." The campaign's major objective: to cast on Russian minds at least the shadow of a doubt about Communism's superiority. Recently Pravda and Izvestia assailed Amerika. Says Editor Sanders happily: "That means we must be getting read...