Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those who suspect "healthy" tributes to button-eyed innocence...
TOKYO--Military police seized a suspect in the alleged plot to assassinate General Douglas MacArthur while a crowd of 300,000 demonstrated outside the Imperial Palace...
...Five of those years were war years; the chief policy-maker was in the active service of his country. To expect any great change in the workings of the University after only eight years of normal educational activity is to demand precocity of the administration, and precocity is traditionally suspect at Harvard. Whatever evidence there may be of a "tired" faculty at Harvard today can be traced to its decline from the heights in the last years before Conant...
Next day News Editorial Writer Reuben Maury twisted out a strange moral to this strange report.* The U.S. had to cut down on beer to send grains to Europe: "We suspect a prohibition angle to all this." Maybe, he continued, it would do Europe good to starve. Said the News...
...Pacifist Giono was soon released from jail and allowed to go on with his writing. According to some, he became a collaborationist, a spokesman for Vichy and Pétain. According to others he worked with the Underground. Many Frenchmen regard his politics as still suspect. Says he in Blue Boy (1932): "There is no glory in being French. There is only one glory: in being alive...