Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when a B-17 fitted with a new flare-dropping rack that he had designed caught fire mysteriously over Cairns, Australia and crashed, killing its crew. The investigation did not establish conclusively that his rack was responsible, but thereafter the device was regarded with open suspicion; no one but Ben and a co-designer felt nervy enough to fly with...
...editor of the weekly L'Express. Servan-Schreiber tells, in dramatic narrative form (a legalistic precaution against military inquiry), of a French patrol which is ordered to get the killers of a pro-French Arab, finds a truck with five Arabs in it, and kills all five on suspicion. That night in the officers' mess, Captain Julienne (newly arrived in Algeria) suggests: "It is perhaps bad practice to kill innocent...
...thousands of Warsaw students and workers into a scratch militia to fight the Russians if necessary. A fortnight ago Staszewski was replaced by a party functionary. Into top ministerial jobs went two other onetime Stalinists who had opposed Gomulka's early program. But the appointment which caused most suspicion was that of blond, poker-faced Zenon Nowak...
...return of the vanquished sectarians increased a malaise among the party hopefuls who had been so enthusiastic four months ago. In an atmosphere of suspense and suspicion, they and the world would be watching eagle-eyed in coming months for those subtle changes which mean so much in Communist Party politics, and are sometimes signaled by putative Putraments...
...Once, policy seekers who had tuberculosis but recovered were considered uninsurable. Now the Pru charges only a slight penalty plus a temporary extra charge, which it takes off after several years if the policyholder remains cured. On the other hand, the Pru's doctors look with increasing suspicion on cigarettes as a possible cause of cancer; the Pru has considered giving a credit to light smokers...