Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there any evidence of such an effort or even a recognition of its need." Reporters forfeited their function to the crystal-gazers. Worse, those newsmen who doubted the certainty of the polls "failed to express their doubts, partly by their intoxication with the accepted certainty; and partly, one may suspect, because they doubted that their papers would welcome a dissenting report...
British fear of French "instability" is not confined to economics. Many British officials suspect that France's desire for Western Union is merely an outgrowth of the "Third Force" movement. Edouard Herriot and Leon Blum, the leaders of France's drive for a European parliament, are also prophets of the Third Force-the middle man. The British fear that men like Herriot and Blum would try to turn Western Union from a militant anti-Communist federation into a bloc which would pursue the illusion of neutrality between Russia and the West...
...also sounded a warning that any use of the basing-point system was likely to arouse its suspicions. FTC said it would suspect conspiracy whenever: 1) prices quoted by competing firms stayed uniform over any length of time, or were changed in concert; 2) competitors whose prices were unusually low were squeezed out or "disciplined" some other way; 3) companies habitually accepted a drop in sales rather than cut their prices...
...ministry carried on without him, however, informing Frenchmen that, the minute they caught sight of a flu suspect, they ought to press a handy piece of gauze over mouth and nostrils. One eminent physician declared: "Consumption of alcohol is at least as efficient a preventive as any drug." Beneath public health notices declaring: "He who avoids flu performs a public service," France's barflies drank deep and gloriously in the full consciousness of civic virtue...
...didn't see the Lunts do this play, and it's hard to say how much of the staging is theirs and how much director Harald Bromley added, but the effect is well-knit and unobtrusive. I suspect the Lunts' edge over the Sidney-Loder duo was in making every shot count; some humorously intended lines in the present rendition just can't lug their point across the footlights. But that still leaves enough laughs and satire and embarrassing encounters of the "Uh-oh, look who's here" type to amuse you for a couple of hours--so long...