Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Director of Health Services said that the department was attempting to keep track of all cases of polio in the area, and requested that all students having any suspicion they might have symptoms of the disease report immediately to the Hygiene Department...
...Britain's Political Quarterly, Dr. Jacob Bronowski, of the British National Coal Board, tries to explain why scientists are viewed with suspicion by most nonscientists. "The scientist," says Bronowski, "is not only disliked, but also distrusted." Governments treat the scientist as "indispensable, but unreliable, a hangdog hangman who has the bad manners to be good at war work and the impertinence to find it distasteful. The public thinks that he has no conscience, and his security officer fears that he has two consciences . . . He is unhappy between his scientific creed and his social loyalty: between, that is, the long...
...cemetery as his wife-very rich and too old for him-is laid to rest. His friends are touched by his noble composure in the face of tragedy. Then he goes home alone, glances at the huge portrait of his late wife, and his satisfied smile confirms the growing suspicion that foul murder has been done. The camera switches to the mansion's cellar, where Housemaid Jean Simmons, her wits sharpened by adversity, has just finished dosing some rats with a little of the medicine that was given to her ailing mistress. The rats are dead...
...Left Bank, a majority of French writers have returned from the U.S. with severe, if not cruel, reports. An America which was our ally, but with a power that was supposedly equal to ours, was a friend to us. An America which is too strong provokes withdrawal and suspicion...
...Worse. In Ventura, Calif., Police Lieutenant Ray Rude arrested Lenwood Andrew Jeanne as he left a wedding chapel with his new bride, impounded the wedding ring, accused Jeanne of purchasing it with a bad check, booked him on suspicion of forgery...