Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worst of all, the Russians are getting impatient. They are beginning to suspect that their heavy investment of monetary and moral support for SED has been unsound. In addition to the Sedists' relatively poor performance at the polls, several political divergencies have appeared. Foreign Minister Molotov recently had to slap down a suggestion by SED Leader Otto Grotewohl that Poland might give up some of the German territory she got at Potsdam. Grotewohl also objects mildly to Russia's super-combine of German industries in the Russian zone (TIME, Aug. 26) and to her peace-delaying tactics (cried...
...excellent opening scenes, tight-packed with sharply observed detail, are models of celluloid suspense. Police Detective Thomas Mitchell coldly interviews the victim's neighbors until he tracks down Suspect Olivia de Havilland, hard at work behind her cigar counter. To the detective's consternation, Miss de Havilland has an identical twin. One of the girls was too near the scene of the crime. But the police cannot get a murder indictment without knowing for certain which girl has the unbreakable alibi. The twins themselves aren't talking...
...self-contradictory-such as his swaggering assertion that the atom bomb was merely a weapon to "intimidate weak nerves," but that it nevertheless constituted a threat to world peace.† Other things, such as his assertion that Russia was not planning to use Germany against the West, were made suspect by current Soviet policy and pronouncements. Three days after Stalin's statement, Pravda called for an "offensive against the ideology of the capitalist world...
...Expressed surprise that Turkey should suspect that Russia's demands would violate Turkish sovereignty...
...Deck. Emanuel's cloak-&-dagger manner and his name (his mother merely liked the name Victor, had no thought of Italy's ex-King) have caused some to suspect him of having an exotic foreign background. Actually, V.E. is as endemically American as flapjacks and maple syrup. He was born in Dayton, the son of a wealthy utilities man. It was a wonderful time and place to grow up in. Only two doors away Charles F. Kettering was working on a magical invention that would start autos automatically; Orville Wright skittered around in one of the first airplanes...