Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoying a pastoral scenic view would ever suspect that those statuesque cows could cause so much trouble. But thanks to them and their herders, this country's honesty is in question, our ECA program retarded, and American agriculture in danger...
...adopted daughter, romantically re-christened Carmen, grew tall, graceful and dignified. José never let her suspect that she was not his real daughter. In 1949, when Carmen was working in a foundry in Valencia, she got an offer of marriage. Her suitor was only a factory hand, stubby and stolid, but husbands were not found under every orange tree, so Carmen said yes. The night before the banns were posted, Jose and Concepción told her what they knew about her birth. They repeated the nun's remark about her being "a real marquesita" and the young...
...government that had to fight down a Communist insurrection only three years ago, Indonesia seemed unduly complacent about the Reds in its midst, growing strong again. But the inexperienced Indonesians had their eye too much on their late masters, the Dutch, to suspect the greater, and closer, danger...
...some of its participants, now in the West, sounds like a Dostoevskian debauch. They tell of drunken bouts in Vasily's tightly guarded, 30-room villa; of his shouting rages, his wild rides in stolen cars, of cuffings, beatings and brutish practical jokes. Their stories, perhaps individually suspect, have when taken together a great deal of consistency. His first wife was dead. According to one story, she was killed in a plane crash which Vasily survived. At Dallgow he lived with Lelya Timoshenko, 21-year-old daughter of the Soviet marshal. On nights when Vasily's chauffeur brought...
Flaubert's great passion was work: the endless quest for verbal perfection. Often he spent weeks on a single page. To his young protégé, Guy de Maupassant, he wrote: "You must-believe me, young man-you must do more work. I am coming to suspect you of being somewhat of an idler. Too many tarts, too much rowing and too much exercise. A cultured man has not as much need of exertion as doctors pretend...