Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian Somaliland, the Ethiopians fancy they discern the bogeyman of British and Italian imperialism. This, plus Italian Somali-land's decision to demand a U.N.-supervised referendum in Somali grazing lands inside the borders of Ethiopia, constitute one of the chief sources of Haile Selassie's growing suspicion of the West. With an age-old fear of Moslem encirclement, the Ethiopians would like to annex the Somalilands themselves, as they did Eritrea in 1952. In the meantime, they clearly hope to win the aid of their new Eastern friends in blocking the emergence of a united, independent Somalia...
...group of U.S. airmen went on a drinking spree at Thingvellir, a pastoral spot sacred to all Icelanders as the first meeting place (in A.D. 930) of the Althing, the oldest continuous Parliament in the world. Last month a U.S. officer's wife was arrested on the suspicion of drunken driving. She phoned the airbase and almost immediately the Icelandic police were surrounded by U.S. troops and had to surrender...
...Freshman Program" first came into common usage around the Cambridge Community last spring, they have been the source of a considerable amount of confusion, curiosity, and controversy. Shrouded in mystery at their birth, they at once began to arouse high hopes in some Harvard circles, and deep apprehension and suspicion in others...
...definite plans for the Program decided that passage of the resolution could be best assured by avoiding discussion of specifics. It would be very hard, of course, to prove that such a strategem was ever consciously planned and carried out; but this report typifies the atmosphere of intrigue--and suspicion of intrigue--in which the Program has so far grown...
...revolution. Castro went on the air, said that he had been invited to many foreign lands to explain the Cuban revolution, but could not go. So, said Castro, "I am sending one of the most responsible compañeros of the revolution, Dr. Guevara. Nobody should have the slightest suspicion. He will be among us again within 30 or 45 days...