Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think it would be better for the Americans to confess that it was an error for them to have been involved. Now the question is: Who was behind the Cyprus coup that overthrew Makarios? Evidence is difficult to get, so it is anybody's guess. People naturally suspect those who have backed the tyranny of the past seven years...
...only targets of his spending cuts. Later, as token of his resolve, he signed two important pieces of domestic legislation into law. One authorizes $11.9 billion to house low-income people; the other provides $25.4 billion in aid to public elementary and secondary schools. Said Ford: "I suspect this is the first federal aid to education bill ever signed by a lefthanded President." The President also signed a bill that revived the Cost of Living Council to monitor wages and prices...
Should Viking find even the most primitive organism, it will help confirm what many scientists suspect: that life is not unique to earth and is probably commonplace throughout the universe...
...nation and earned Nixon the enduring enmity of large segments of the U.S. intelligentsia. Emotional revisionists now argue that if Nixon lied in the Watergate affair, his role in the Hiss case was suspect as well. There is no evidence to support that logic. While the country undoubtedly overreacted to the Communist threat, Nixon cannot be faulted for his persistence in the Hiss case, which he pursued with the same investigative doggedness that his own accusers were to demonstrate in Watergate. Later, Nixon wrote in his autobiographical Six Crises that what had hurt Hiss most was not what...
...poet's lack of maturity, but there is something amazing about him too. His words sparkle with droplets that come from the heart, and that gives his verse the luster of beauty. These magic dewdrops need not be stimulated by real life events. On the contrary, we suspect that the poet sometimes squeezes his heart with the same detachment as a housewife squeezing a lemon over her salad...