Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official Nairobi communique said the prisoners had died "after drinking water from a water cart." When Coroner W. H. Goudie began his own inquiry, he got little assistance from witnesses who testified, including, in his opinion, Hola's white Camp Commandant Michael Sullivan, whose veracity he frankly doubted. The coroner's verdict was itself curiously negative: "It is impossible to determine beyond reasonable doubt which injuries on the deceased were caused by justifiable and which by unjustifiable blows," or "which particular person struck the blows...
Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Director Frank Schaffner left little doubt about whom he had in mind. Among other coincidences, the chairman of the Senate committee is gruff and dry-throated (Arkansas' Senator McClellan), the Senate's counsel boyish and shock-haired (Robert Kennedy). The Rank and File had more than its share of walking, talking cliches, was clearly less concerned with presenting moving characters than with characterizing a movement. But if nothing else, it succeeded in dramatizing the breathtaking reversal of political fortunes that transformed, in one generation, yesterday's picket-line victims into today's labor...
...Burma seems to doubt that General Ne Win's military regime will, in due course, call general elections and hand the country back to civilian rule. But due course is not soon enough for U Nu, the moonfaced ex-Premier who called the soldiers in when his own political dominance began to crumble...
Much of the book uses reality merely as a springboard toward fantasy; characters may suddenly levitate or turn into werewolves. Also, there are boggy tracts that sound, and no doubt are meant to sound, like ads for Rosicrucianism ("large increments of love are released that are fermenting in the Fertile Void"). What emerges is an allegory on whatever the reader chooses-the perversity of man, the bright illusion of love, the red-eyed aurochs of war. Dotted throughout the book are moon-mad digressions-a plan to enroll farm boys in the Joy Scouts of America, hike them into Harlem...
...Joel Landau paced the Crimson by winning both the high and low hurdles, and a healthy Landau would be a sure bet to repeat his double triumph against mediocre opposition this year. But Landau has been hobbled all season long by recurrent foot troubles, and his status is in doubt...