Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does tell the story, in its somewhat lumbering fashion, to any country that will buy or barter its news. It has 125 U.S.-trained men abroad (90 prewar). But the A.P. has refused to let the State Department use its file for the "Voice of America," lest foreigners suspect its "impartiality...
...best tracks, known to horsemen as "the big apple," where rich stables race for prestige as well as profits, not nearly so many horses are "pulled" as the glower ing fans suspect. And if Eddie Arcaro is glowered at more than anybody, it is really a backhanded compliment: fans can't understand how he can lose. Arcaro tries to be philosophical about the booing: "I guess they're entitled to beef if they want to. They're losing their money...
...months past, Dumaine & friends had quietly spent an estimated $5,000,000 buying up the voting preferred stock which controls the long-bankrupt New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail Road Co., recently reorganized. When the management of the New Haven finally began to suspect what was happening, it was too late. Last week Dumaine told them the score: his group controlled more than half the New Haven's 391,000 active shares of preferred. An additional 62,090 shares are held in trust and there is question whether they can be voted. Thus, Dumaine thought he had enough...
...which is a point of meaninglessness. It tends to deal with undefined moods, hazily defined characters, and ponderously defined natural trivia, e.g., "They sat on an ironwood tree's outcropping roots, roots tangled like gray fingers in wild interplay with Medusa's hair." It tends to make the reader suspect that the author is sentimentally fond of writing, but unfortunately finds himself with nothing or little to say about people or events. Generally, although not necessarily, authors with something to say take care to say it clearly...
...Newman's attitude toward Rome gradually changed. In studying early Christian history, he began to suspect that his beloved Church of England was in schism. For six agonizing years Newman tortured himself with questioning and doubt. Many of his friends deserted him. .In 1842 he left Oxford to retire to a life of monastic asceticism with a few young followers...