Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gotta. America's 42 million income-taxpaying fish of 1952 are, however, far from the starvation point. They never, they keep telling one another, had it so good. Around March 15, they suspect that they are living in a mirage. This suspicion is confirmed by many economists. A livelier witness is Miss Doreen Gray, no economist but a striptease artist who was performing last week at the Colony Club of Gardena, Calif...
Howe said that "the decision is premature, for we do not know how the Feinberg Law will be enforced, or what kind of hearings the individual suspect would be given...
...husky kid, a dutiful son and a student who liked sports better than study. In high school he was unwillingly drafted into a student play, to give a rawboned caricature of a British peer. The experience rid him of the hated name Marion by capping him with the slightly suspect nickname "Duke." It did not attract him in any way to the acting profession. After graduating from high school, he joined several other U.S.C. footballers who were working as part-time stagehands at the Fox Studio. And the more young Morrison saw of the studios, the more fascinated he became...
Whether the Brattle players transformed Sheridan's satire into a 20th Century fantasy because of a coherent dramatic theory or merely because it afforded an excellent vehicle for their own wild shenanigans is hard to say. I suspect it was a combination of the two. Certainly the sterility and hypocritical morality of Sheridan's London is analogous to literary theories of modern society. The company also apparently feels that the theatrical forms of the two ages are similar; in both centuries there is what Sheridan himself admitted was "an excessive opulence of wit," a lack of natural character delineation...
Colonel Vissering, while on Eisenhower's wartime staff, had picked up a trick or two about military diplomacy. So, in his first move, instead of bringing in U.S. service troops to repair the sea wall, Vissering hired local labor. Soon Livorno's people began to suspect that the Americans had come not to requisition and rape -as the Communist press proclaimed-but to spend cash and offer jobs...