Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of McCarthy's accusations,, said Lattimore, were based on "perverse and twisted" quotations from his books, on phrases lifted out of context, on old, discredited rumors and gossip from highly suspect sources. Said Lattimore: "I get a certain amount of wry amusement out of the fact that some of these people are acknowledged ex-Communists. Perhaps that status gives them a special right to criticize those of us who do not happen to be Communists, ex-or otherwise...
...Stokstad and Jukes do not know why the antibiotic is also a growth stimulant. They do not think it functions as a vitamin. More likely, they suspect, it inhibits intestinal bacteria that consume vitamins or have other harmful effects on the animal's nutrition. They hope that it may prove valuable in treating some types of human malnutrition...
Senator McCarthy believes that if a man has ever agreed with Communist doctrines, the man is disloyal and his opinions are suspect McCarthy has stopped trying to find the difficult spilt between ideas and ideology, to separate free opinion from fettered adherence to a party line. Unfortunately, so have a lot of other people...
Schuley is still a little baffled by the fact that Americans ask him few questions about the Hitler days, a lot about Russian prison camps. Says he: "I do not know whether this is [because] some people may suspect that I was in the Nazi movement and are afraid of hurting my feelings, or whether there is simply no longer an interest in the U.S. on that subject...
Angry Denials. By week's end McCarthy had fetched up only two or three headline-catching tidbits for the Senate Committee. One was a passing reference to Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup ("An unusual affinity for Communist causes"). Another was the name of a suspect who turned out to be neither a Communist nor a State Department employee. She was ex-U.N. Delegate Dorothy Kenyon, onetime Manhattan municipal court judge, whom McCarthy accused of having belonged to "at least 28 Communist-front organizations...