Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single largest step toward those goals in 30 years. As such, it is incumbent on all Middle East interests to strive to implement the ideals of the accord. However, steps toward this solution will necessarily be small, tentative and conditioned on similar action by the opposing side, since suspicion runs too high for any party to unilaterally make dramatic concessions...
...suspicion that Castro or his agents could have conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald to kill Kennedy rests chiefly on the fact that the Cuban leader had reason to be angry with the President. There had been the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Additionally, the CIA tried to assassinate Castro in the 1960s, using U.S. mobsters as hit men. There is also some slight circumstantial evidence for the theory. In September 1963 Oswald sought a visa to enter Cuba at the country's consulate in Mexico City. That same year, Oswald was arrested...
Radcliffe justly takes pride in the advancements it has helped women achieve in the Harvard community. When Radcliffe began, many people looked upon the idea of highly educated women with suspicion and disdain. Now undergraduate women at Harvard can participate fully in University life, unhindered by most outside barriers; but those gains for women have parallelled a loss in Radcliffe's raison d'etre...
Through that living voice, living people begin to inhabit the stage: the scribes and Pharisees, hardened by suspicion and orthodoxy; the Disciples, stalwart but muddled; Jesus himself, patient and determined but often exasperated ("Perceive ye not yet, neither understand...
Executive Editor Morton Kondracke of the New Republic ventilated his suspicion that the backlash is incited by "a few columnists and freelance writers trying to earn a bit." Yet even he confessed to being put off when a friend learned he was a runner and asked: "Have you experienced euphoria?" No, Kondracke replied. Indeed, he himself admits to complaints "against joggery profiteers"-authors, magazine publishers, dealers in running gear, even some doctors who treat running injuries. Thus, perhaps inadvertently, he joined the backlashers...