Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the Labor Party who received the mild-looking lawyer into their ranks in 1929 could not suspect what a political hellion he would turn out to be. His militant leftism reached a climax when, in the years 1937-39, he tried to ally Laborites with Communists in a Popular Front. The Labor Party booted...
...fuller cultivation of those qualities which are best termed spiritual. Whatever we may think as to their origin, as scientists, we should no longer sneer at them; for on their strength depends our own survival. Man leads a double life, of mind and spirit. If mind is suspect, as in religious fanaticism, man may become a creature only of his instincts; if spirit is suspect, as today when scientific materialism carries such authority, he is in danger of degenerating into a selfish and soulless mechanism. To be a whole man, he must cultivate both parts...
...poor woman five pounds to return to her home in England, and even the money that he throws away boastfully feeds hungry people. Wonderful dramatic scenes highlight the movie-Gyppo, the informer, drops some pieces of silver at the betrayed man's wake. They have not yet begun to suspect, but suddenly Gyppo sees himself as Judas. It is the drama of self-recognition, in which a potentially good man realizes the horror of his own fate...
...same way Protestants are inclined to be unyielding on problems of the public school because they suspect the hierarchy, at least, of being inimical to the whole idea of a public school system, which Protestants, as well as our secular democrats, regard as one of the foundation stones of our democracy. Protestants are furthermore not at all certain that the Catholic hierarchy really accepts the fundamental separation of church and state, to which American democracy is committed...
...Infantile paralysis is often confused with other nervous-system disorders (e.g., various forms of meningitis). Researchers now suspect that a 1934 "polio" epidemic of 2,055 cases in Los Angeles was incorrectly diagnosed, and a supposed polio outbreak in Delaware this summer, which had almost no crippling effects, may not have been polio...