Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought of an ideal first and then built a state around it-will prove in the long run happier, freer, and more creative when they carry that ideal of a free society out into the world, than if they sit at home to hug it to themselves. ... I suspect that Americans will find initiative and action so much more to their taste than any panic-stricken waiting on what destiny may bring...
...Luini nor Baldovinetti was aware of the fact, but while they painted, the astronomer Copernicus was calmly pulling the earth out from under their studios. Even in the Renaissance, a scattering of prophets such as Savonarola kept repeating that man is mere dust; but never before Copernicus did anyone suspect what out-of-the-way dust man was. When Copernicus squeezed the world into a ball and set it spinning through the blackness of outer space, he did much to destroy the importance of man in art as well as in the universe...
...average Russian has no other alternative but to suspect us, because of the way Pravda interprets American politics," Steinbeck explained. This fear of American intentions persists, even though the Russians as a whole have been very favorably impressed with the few Americans they have seen, he added...
...front. Under the Communist Party, it listed seven "affiliate" committees, among them the Labor Research Association Inc. and the Committee to Aid the Fighting South. It listed several disbanded outfits, but it did not include several large organizations whose leaders' pursuit of the Communist line has made them suspect in Congress and elsewhere.* Now labeled by the Government as "Communist or subversive" were these busy and noisy organizations...
...group, the 32 poets were remarkably hardy: ten lived to be over 70; only four died before 40. Of these four, Shelley was drowned and Marlowe killed in a tavern brawl, Keats died (at 26) of tuberculosis, and Byron of an unspecified disease (from his symptoms, diagnosticians now suspect typhoid or malaria...