Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they did not have proper papers. Police photographers shot pictures of every white man attending the congress, including newsmen ("Just for the record," they explained), and at one point, armed police forced the male delegates to empty their pockets and the women to turn out their handbags, on the suspicion that some of them were carrying "inflammatory material...
During the excitement of the so-called "Age of Suspicion" of the past seven years, traditional conceptions of "academic freedom" have ramified so quickly that it has often been difficult to sort out basic issues from special cases. Definition, examination, and often agonizing reappraisal, however, have slowly had their effect. Along with the much-discussed scars of conformity and fear, introspection caused by the investigations has probably also brought a generally saner approach to the whole problem of academic freedom. No longer is the typical case necessarily that of the professor who refused point-blank to testify to a committee...
...recent athletic defeats and that the Crimson's apparently patronizing attitude had gone too far. Suddenly, on Armistice Day, athletic relations between the two universities were severed: Princeton Professor C. W. Kennedy wrote to Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 that "Competition carried on in an atmosphere of suspicion and ill will of necessity falls short of the desirable objective of intercollegiate sports. Under these circumstances, we prefer to discontinue competition with Harvard altogether...
...specifically condemning, the notion of neutral armed states. Reassurances flowed in from Washington last week, but der Alte was still anxious to forestall any Big Four notion that German unity might be bought with German neutrality. In this he was supported by his Socialist opponents, who developed a belated suspicion of neutrality as soon as German neutrality became remotely a possibility. "The establishment of a belt of neutral but armed states in [Europe]," said Adenauer, "would mean the end of West European Union, of any kind of European integration and of NATO. The balance of forces at present existing would...
...Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories had been expected to supply one-sixth of the total, were out of the running and would stay out as long as their vaccine remained under suspicion...