Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DAYS OF SUSPICION...
...sickly suspicious; we knew this from our work with him. He could look at a man and say: 'Why are your eyes so shifty today?' Or, 'why are you turning so much today and avoiding looking at me directly in the eyes?' The sickly suspicion created in him a general distrust even toward eminent party workers whom he had known for years. Everywhere and in everything he saw 'enemies,' 'two-facers' and 'spies...
...corralled the joint chiefs at Key West, Fla., ordered them to forget about returning to Washington until they had settled their roles and missions. From these tense sessions came the agreement under which the armed forces operate-at least in theory-to this day. In an atmosphere of mutual suspicion, the Joint Chiefs were careful to specify that all words in their agreement would have the meaning "contained in Webster's New International Dictionary (Unabridged)." *To prove Nike's prowess, the Army last week fired a Nike battery for newsmen at White Sands, N. Mex. The results were...
Trujillo became a Roosevelt client March i, just eleven days before Galindez, a Basque-born teacher of Latin American politics at Columbia University, finished an evening class, started home, and vanished. Lawyer Roosevelt doggedly ignored the ever louder suspicion, held by the press and even the New York police, that Client Trujillo was responsible for kidnaping Galindez. "I never heard of Galindez!" Roosevelt complained on the night of April 12, when anti-Trujillo exiles in Manhattan threatened to picket a Democratic fund-raising dinner for which he was toastmaster.* In the Dominican Republic, Dictator Trujillo's kept press played...
...cautiously downgrading the "cult of personality," the Polish Communist press has called Stalin almost every name in its considerable vocabulary of vituperation. It has accused him of murdering Polish leaders. His record as a war strategist has come in for contemptuous reappraisal, his pact with Hitler bitterly criticized, and suspicion cast on his (or Russia's) failure to help the Polish Home Army. In the course of explaining why they had not exposed the Stalin evil earlier, young Polish Communist intellectuals have self-accusingly described in detail their previous efforts to twist historical facts into the party line...