Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honors students want a tutorial program, Leighton said, "and I have a strong suspicion that many are happy under present condition." He stated, however, that a voluntary, flexible program would provide important benefits...
...noted that an "old-fashioned anticlerical feeling" still exists in some quarters. This feeling Ford deemed replete with "tremors of remembered suspicion and continuing distaste on the part of the non-religious person for what he takes as a potential intrusion by organized religion...
Secondly, there is a strong suspicion that the Clubs could never, realistically, be destroyed. Greek letter fraternities were outlawed 100 years ago, and the present Clubs simply sprang up in their place. And of course there is the crass but major consideration that much of the Universitiy's financial support comes from wealthy Club alumni who might be reluctant to feed the hand that bites them...
Secondly, there is a strong suspicion that the Clubs could never, realistically, be destroyed. Greek letter fraternities were outlawed 100 years ago, and the present Clubs simply sprang up in their place. And of course there is the crass but major consideration that much of the Universitiy's financial support comes from wealthy Club alumni who might be reluctant to feed the hand that bites them...
...custom of bringing girls to football games. He was not alone in these reflections, however, for when Sebbie returned, his upper lip painted in the moustache left by an orange drink, some of the girlish smiles above him turned to frowns and giggles. There dawned the uneasy suspicion in Vag that he was being marked as a pervert...