Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bastard offspring of timidity and confusion. Where, in all the world, do these four powers work together with sufficient coordination to suggest they could jointly administer anything? How can Koreans believe that at the conclusion of five years of confusion and intrigue the trusteeship would actually end? Who can doubt that Communist agitation would be invoked to create such confusion that a prolongation of the trusteeship would appear "necessary...
Most Japanese regard Katayama as a not-too-strong, neutral character-"neither poison nor medicine"-and doubt that his Cabinet will do much. The new coalition has already made its unhappy mark on protocol-happy Imperial Household officials. At this week's formal investiture, several Ministers showed up without dress coats...
...reader has imagined that he smelled something that was not quite the Rose. The blunt, inevitable question has been: Who writes his stuff for him? Billy swears that he does it himself, "and it takes me from four to six hours a day." Actually, there is little room for doubt that Billy writes the prose that bears his byline. The column talks like Billy, it mawks like Billy, it has all of Billy's change-rattling eloquence and off-the-arm skill with a gag. Besides, he is far too shrewd to be caught in a whopping...
When through the midst of doubt...
...also comes to doubt that the artist is really blind. His effort to find out, in a walk along the lip of a cliff, is a hair-raising piece of melodrama. Quieter, but no less exciting, are the nasty undertows of purely psychological uneasiness, as the members of this perverse triangle take each other's measure...