Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wright Patman, nursing (as the Christian Science Monitor noted) "an old-fashioned Populist's suspicion of Eastern bankers," unloosed the first salvo. Opening a subcommittee inquiry into U.S. monetary policy, Patman explained that the hearings were justified by "the danger that the tight money policy may wreck the economy." He attacked the Federal Reserve Board for raising its discount rate (i.e., the fee charged by the Federal Reserve system on loans to member banks) from i^% to 3% over the last 20 months (TIME, Sept. 10). By thus restricting credit, rumbled Patman, the Federal Reserve Board has driven farmers...
Political right-wingers usually look with great suspicion on the Scholarships, which are awarded throughout the British Commonwealth as well. They feel Rhodes established them simply to strengthen British imperialism in the world by providing training opportunities for future political leaders. The Chicago Tribune considered this point so important a few years ago that it devoted a whole series of editorials to a detailed attack of the Scholarships...
...years in prison. She had fired the shotgun that killed her tavern-owner husband Marion; this was incontrovertible. Yet for 34-year-old Dave Weyer, who had once worked in a children's psychiatric clinic, Violet Sill's continued insistence on her own guilt raised the suspicion that something was wrong with the case. He decided to straighten...
Keenly aware of the suspicion with which national states regard any proposal to limit their sovereignty-as Deputy Foreign Minister of Sweden he had plenty of practice in thinking in purely nationalistic terms-Hammarskjold moves cautiously, never asks more power than he needs or the situations require. But he refuses to regard himself as a mere agent of a legislature. Given a mission, e.g., to arrange a cease-fire in Egypt. Hammarskjold is guided not by the letter of his instructions but by his understanding of what the majority of the United Nations wants...
...noticeable differences in the performances of Springfield runners. Nor could the scientists find any evidence that warming up reduces the number of athletic injuries. Their deadpan conclusion: "No one will question the beneficial effect of warming up when limbs may be almost numb from cold, but there is a suspicion that the practice of warming up is frequently overdone...