Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper readers suspect how much headwork goes into headlines. A head must do more than nutshell the news and lure the reader into the story. First & foremost, it must "count," which means that the type must fit an allotted space. Hemmed in by columns, the copydesker spends his life finding short words like "nips" for long ones like "arrests...
...movie box office has not yet completely lost the land-office look it had during wartime. But moviemen suspect that the boom is over. How soon a real slump will come is something that fretful Hollywood has begun to fret about...
...understand why that parking area should be a fire hazard at night and not in the day. After all, less fires start from cigarettes when the students are asleep. During the daytime students are in class, taking their car keys with them, whereas at night it is reasonable to suspect that someone might be home who could move a car in case of a fire. Furthermore, the sergeant had always assumed that the Houses were reasonably fire resistant. As the policeman explained matters to me, all this enforcement of the parking regulations started about ten years ago, just prior...
...Menningers feel that every psychiatrist should himself have had some kind of psychological distress; otherwise, he might have "a kind of character rigidity" that would make it difficult for him to understand his patients' troubles. Facetious skeptics suspect that psychiatrists are themselves psychiatric cases...
...Chairman Dies' continual peeves was the fact that this same suspect New Deal was hostile to his committee. His relations with the Department of Justice and Attorney-General Biddle were particularly strained. Just before Pearl Harbor, Dies sent Biddle a list of 1,124 federal employees alleged to be Communists or members of subversive organizations. A year later, after an exhaustive FBI investigation, Biddle announced that of Dies' 1,124, only two--were discharged. Dies quickly called the report a "white-wash." But his batting average never was very high...