Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Program Promotes Suspicion...
...communist activity was not limited to graduate students. It caught the undergraduate fancy too. That Harvard was unusually notable in this sort of agitation is, however, a myth. In his book, The Age of Suspicion, James Wechsler describes a mass strike at Columbia lasting several days, when the editor of Spectator was expelled for writing communist editorials. A large percentage of the student newspaper staff and many campus leaders at Columbia were, according to Wechsler's description, members of the party or close fellow travelers...
...Phoenix, Ariz., police arrested Jimmy Verdugo on suspicion of drunkenness after they found him in a tree and heard his explanation that he was 1) looking for cigarette butts, 2) waiting for a bus, 3) looking for a girl to dance with...
...islanders thronged to a meeting in the Mercer Crest School to discuss the issue. As Stenhouse listened, 38 of his neighbors spoke varying opinions. "Let's rise on our hind legs and throw him out!" cried one. "Our American schools must be kept free of even a suspicion that they may be guided along Communistic lines," said a local veterans' leader...
...They simply cannot understand giving without taking, and as a result even our giving is viewed with suspicion. Gratitude cannot be banked in the Soviet Union. Each transaction is complete in itself without regard to past favors. The party of the second part is either a shrewd trader to be admired or a sucker to be despised...