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Word: suspects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main beliefs. During the past ten years, I have been going back and forth around the nation, trying to persuade our fellow countrymen that the American economy is stronger than they think and that there exists the possibility of our building . . . a better and more beautiful America. I suspect that many of my hearers have thought that these ideas represented nothing more than idealistic optimism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...setting is a British-governed island in the West Indies, and the problems involved are as numerous and various as the characters. Sugar Planter Maxwell Fleury suspects that he has Negro blood. His mother is reluctant to assure him that he has not, because it would mean admitting that Maxwell's real father was a 100% white with whom she committed adultery. Maxwell also suspects his wife Sylvia of an affair with a retired colonel, so he throttles the officer and is soon suspected of murder by the chief of police. Meanwhile, Carl Bradshaw, middle-aging reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Large Economy Size | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Perhaps it's too much to ask also for tipsy liquids at the Clubhouse, which will accompany an eighteen hole University golf course, something we should have wished for ages age. After all, St. Mark's, as we might suspect, and Wellesley, as we might not suspect, have their share of greens and sandtraps...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

...Teaching Fellows, he stated that their life was so busy and full that the high quality of most of their teaching was "fairly miraculous." He did not state that their teaching "adversely affects the quality of teaching in the College." Commenting yesterday, Elder remarked, "On the contrary, I rather suspect that it improves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON Report Misconstrues Elder | 12/15/1955 | See Source »

...some variety, they applauded the audience for their reception. Said Actor Alec Clunes, who played the king: "All through the performance the audience was very much with us. We didn't get as many laughs as we would expect to get in London, but we got many. And I suspect we got a lot of tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Rodger and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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