Word: suspectedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some observers linked Britain's acceptance of Soviet policy in Poland and the Balkans with Russia's apparent acceptance of Britain's bloc in the west. Said the London Spectator: "We must accept these things as perfectly natural acts . . . and not suspect that they may be signs of incipient aggression. The Russians, after all, have never questioned our special relationship to northwestern Europe...
...taxes or economic measures. He is a small-town politician who has learned to conduct himself inoffensively on the national stage, and who has to his credit some good work honestly done; a man as neat and grey as his double-breasted suits. There is no reason to suspect that he would make a great President-and there is no reason to believe that he would be the worst...
...getting phenomenally nervous. By all counts this was one of the queerest, bitterest-and closest-of all the Presidential races in U.S. history. So dead certain were all the experts that the race would be neck-&-neck that a comfortable victory by either candidate would make political expertism indefinitely suspect. And the polls were indecisive-if they showed anything it was that Dewey had drawn nearly level since midsummer. (Only the gamblers saw it as 3-to-1 for Roosevelt, and not much money was being...
...real production stranglehold is the "quota." The quota started as a scheme to beat the hated production speed-up which workers suspect in Akron's piecework system. In the past, faster work often meant that the company would cut the payrate per piece. Thus, to make certain they do not work harder for less money, workers in many departments set their own quotas. This has been brought to such scientific control that many pieceworkers collect the same amount in their paychecks-down to the last cent. For long, companies approved the quota-it kept skilled employes from burning themselves...
Double Play? General de Gaulle had antagonized practically everybody, including some of his own associates, with his arbitrary behavior in London. But his posturings and demands had not improved the U.S. position. Said the shrewd London Economist: ". . . allowing for the worst the President can suspect, the present American attitude is calculated to bring about exactly those dangers which it is designed to prevent...