Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors have long wanted a worldwide treaty guaranteeing freedom of the press, and they thought the United Nations was the means to get it. They began to suspect, in a string of preliminary conferences, that they were wrong. Last month they got proof when the U.N. turned the treaty-drafting job over to a committee* loaded with nations which cared more about restricting the press than freeing...
After holding the suspects incommunicado for several days, the government wordlessly released all but three Herald reporters. Said Suspect Lansang, a trifle nervously: "I was treated very well...
...sold more than 300,000 copies and was bought by the movies. Then Hollywood, which thinks sex is so important that it created a Production Code to keep sex out, added a triangle to the plot. The Cary Grant-Myrna Loy movie was advertised with leering posters: "Does Gary suspect the wolf at the door is his best friend...
What should be Operation Pacific's strongest point proves its major disappointment: the action at sea. The script makes Wayne's submarine do everything that a submarine can (and perhaps, a moviegoer may suspect, some things that it cannot). But the fighting takes place on the bravado level of an adventure story, e.g., Wayne dives overboard to swim to the rescue of a downed fighter pilot. Even on that level, the film develops little suspense. By applying realism to technical jargon rather than to such essentials as character, mood and incident, the picture never conveys the submariners...
...Rotarians in 83 lands, who hold luncheon meetings once a week, call each other by their first names and fraternize under the motto Service Above Self, are not used to thinking of themselves as secret, seditious or suspect. Founded 45 years ago, Rotary was the brain child of a young Chicago lawyer, Paul P. Harris, who thought of it as a social club of businessmen with "an especial advantage in each member having exclusive representation of his particular trade or profession. The members would be mutually helpful...