Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slap a fine on Queen Elizabeth II did just that. The autocratic Jockey Club notified defaulting Member Elizabeth that she would have to pay up $140 for failing to notify the club at least three days before the running of the Champion Stakes at Newmarket that her colt, Above Suspicion, would not be in the race...
...have made mistakes and watched the Trojans go, including the Big Ten's sturdy Ohio State, which gave up a humiliating 301 yds. on the ground, gained only 84 in a 17-0 loss. Alumni are trying to forget that they eyed young (35) Coach Clark with open suspicion when he took over in 1957, promptly won five, lost 14 and tied one in two seasons...
...work habits are abominable. He is busiest when the sky over the city is a grey suspicion of dawn, the hour when streetwalkers quit, grifters count their take, and busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard. He is furiously honest, but he can spot a rigged wheel with a sharper's skill...
...past contestants reappeared in the newspapers to plead innocence or cast suspicion, and TV reporters wrote reams of copy designed to show that they had really been in the know all along, considerable suspicion piled up against CBS's $64,000 programs, Question and Challenge. Even the great, granite TV-screen image of New York's Manufacturers Trust Company, with its dignified vice president and two uniformed guards, turned out to be hollow; the bank had guarded the questions all right, but had only the word of the producers that no one else had seen them...
...around the globe the diplomatic consequences of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks snowballed. Cautiously, with many a hedge and continuing mutual suspicion, the Big Two pushed ahead last week with a historic attempt to change the "balance of terror" stalemate between East and West...