Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...topped with a fine head of gray-streaked hair parted in the middle. His bearing is impressive and authoritative, and he is ready to tackle any sort of knotty problem which may be baffling his underlings. To cite one instance out of many, a proctor had begun to suspect an examinee of resorting to a crib sheet, but wasn't sure enough to make an issue of it. Mr. Leonard took over masterfully by casually asking the suspect to move to another seat: in the process of moving the tell-tale slip of paper fell to the floor...
Some U.S. left-wingers who had eagerly grabbed up Russia's cause at war's end were beginning to suspect they had caught a bear by the tail. In Manhattan's fiercely leftist PM last week, Author-Editorialist Saul K. Padover, a militant member of the intellectual Left, tried to let go. Wrote...
That, as some Englishmen would say, tore it. For, as a result of that brief encounter, the bigwigs of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are now immodestly slapping their own backs with the fervor of flagellant monks. They have acquired, little Miss Kerr, and they suspect that she might be the biggest thing that has happened to M-G-M since Greer Garson...
...extreme vagueness of the article makes it suspect. No names or places are mentioned, and there is no evidence shown that it actually occurred...
...Like statesmen arguing for disarmament, each of them was all for amateurism, in football, but didn't want to be the first: to try it. One who could discuss the matter with authority was Notre Dame's president, Father John J. Cavanaugh. Said he last week: "I suspect the reformers protest too much. . . . We at Notre Dame make no apologies about wanting winners...