Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eventually, a posse is sent to fetch her back, the shepherd absconds, and she crawls contritely back to a tender reconciliation with the baker. I suspect that, having failed in love, she took to poisoning wells...
Stoking Napoleon's hatred was the fact that flamboyant, liberty-loving Mme. de Staël had been one of the first to suspect his despotic ambitions. As France's First Consul, Napoleon had guessed, quite rightly, that Mme. de Staël "wanted to put him on guard against himself" and to play the part of mistress-adviser to him. But the Consul already had his eye on sylphish Juliette Récamier, wife of a Paris banker, had sent Minister Joseph Fouché to whisper in her ear: "The First Consul finds you charming." When, after...
...Burning Desire. Kishi's enemies, making a pun on his name, call him ryō kishi-meaning, roughly, "one who tries to keep a foot on both banks of the river." During the three years he spent in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison as a "war crimes suspect"-he was General Tojo's Commerce and Industry Minister-Kishi claims to have been seized by a "burning desire" to see Japan rebuilt according to democratic principles. Yet, as Premier, he has surrounded himself with a kitchen Cabinet composed of men like bull-necked Nationalist Okinori Kaya, 69. Kaya...
...results from too quick a reading of Mr. Bartley's skillful but too subtly constructed article. Prof. Wilder has with consummate skill defended the idea of commitment, an idea which comes only with the experience of constrasting the quality of education received from committed and non-committed men. I suspect that, from a religious standpoint, Harvard students will have gained a far deeper insight into the significance of Protestant thought from Dr. Buttrick's courses than from all the objective lectures of the University's philosophers and social scientists. This is in no way to deny the the great value...
...would definitely go to Cairo any time [Nasser] invites me," said Israel's 71-year-old Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week. "Though I suspect his ambition is to be the dominating leader in Africa and the Moslem world," B-G told Look's William Attwood, "I have never thought of him as a Hitler; I don't think he would or could do what Hitler did. Therefore I would not hesitate to negotiate with...