Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found guilty, they have seldom misbehaved since. The new look comes partly from a flat look in the union's pocketbook after paying for Hall's defense and Bridges' frequent court appearances to fight deportation to Australia. But it springs also from the union's suspicion that there lies a limit beyond which even the I.L.W.U., for its own security, ought not to strain Hawaii's sugar and pineapple economy...
...leavened with a little Freud. In particular, it is the kind of fraud practiced by the English, who cling to the belief that if something awkward is ignored, it will go away. Gerald Middleton, handsome, sixtyish and a kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility idol. Ever since, disconcerted historians had been...
...reports came rolling in from the field last week, the top brass at Republican headquarters first blinked with pleasure, then reacted with suspicion. Out to the precincts went the word: "Check again." And almost invariably the rechecked answers were the same: Dwight...
Prisoner's Base. In San Diego, Motorist Walter Harris was booked on suspicion of drunken driving after he made a wrong turn while fleeing from a patrol car, careened up the police station driveway, knocked down a No Parking sign, skidded to a stop 20 ft. from the city jail...
There is also a premonition among faculty members that their chances for promotion may be weakened by criticism of the University or by saying too many unpopular things. This is admittedly a reasonable suspicion, and probably true at almost any institution...