Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are those who wonder whether in this advocacy Senator Kennedy is primarily motivated by political ambition. The Senator could easily allay such a base suspicion by advocating also the return of Puerto Rico to the Puerto Ricans, Hawaii to the Hawaiians, and Alaska to the Alaskans. The Virgin Islands...
When the boys first arrived at camp, both groups were ill at ease. "I thought these Oxford students," said one Borstal boy, "would all be poshy types. And I dare say they thought we'd all come in carrying choppers [razors] and machine guns." As the days passed, suspicion melted away. From the moment the camp's cooks of the day lit the stove to fry the breakfast eggs, the two groups worked and played together, soon developed the camaraderie of foxhole cronies. They toured nearby castles and monasteries, gradually began to unburden themselves. Says one Oxonian: "When...
...often flopped. He himself acknowledges that the Russian economic experts-at whom he always jeers-are agreed that his plans for equaling the U.S. in food production in a couple of seasons are impossible. His brother Stalinists-Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich-may have been united only in stern Marxist suspicion of the "childish joy" of his impulses. On the record, he is as committed to slavery, to crushing out trouble in the satellites, and to enmity of the West, as any Communist...
...rich Iran, long regarding foreign interest in its black wealth with suspicion, last week put out the welcome mat and declared open house for all comers. After two days of debate, the Majlis (the lower house of Parliament) passed a new law that opens up vast new areas of Iran for oil exploration and development under surprisingly favorable terms for foreign investors...
...system of government, it is one in which a few people have a tremendous amount of power and live in an atmosphere of political suspicion characteristic of all social aspects of communism, Conant explained...