Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything I hardly consider myself a radical advocate of Women's Liberation but next to Mrs. Emmett I seem to breathe fire. She also has the kind of aristocratic attitude which is the expected result of her family history, her education, and her place in time, and I suspect that she's vaguely anti-Semitic (she doesn't know I'm Jewish...
Forster) is a $20-a-day Hollywood private eye who wears a vest, a trench coat and a Bogart mask of cynicism. "I hope you'll pardon the way I look. I just threw something on," a pretty suspect (Jessica Walter) tells him when he rings her doorbell. "You almost missed," retorts Banyon, in a line that dates from considerably earlier than...
...McGovern the peace candidate is thought less apt to bring peace than Nixon, who has failed to do so in his first term. McGovern the prairie populist is thought less likely to pay attention to the needs of the little man than Richard Nixon, who a majority of voters suspect is too close to big business. These responses suggest that the voters have turned against McGovern for intuitive, seat-of-the-pants reasons having more to do with personality than issues, and that they now rationalize their choice by giving Nixon the benefit of the doubt on issues...
Weary. So for the moment, the Nixonian star is ascendant?not so much because the President has captured and guided the nation's imagination but almost by default. Indeed, there are those who suspect that this election has as much to do with 1976 as 1972: an enormous Nixon victory might enhance the party's post-Nixon chances four years hence...
...sense of "system." The free enterprise system, the law-and-order system, even the "family unit" system?they are the recurring images among Nixon supporters. Their antonym is "chaos," not Utopia. They are apprehensive of the disorders that the late '60s adumbrated to them, the turmoils that they suspect a McGovern accession might bring...