Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the most normal actions may be judged political in the campaign season. Unusual actions, like the mass flu inoculations, are subject to deep suspicion and intense scrutiny. There are bills to be signed or vetoed, delegations seen and heard, world and national events commented on. Each day of a President's life is crowded with decisions that are statements of purpose and position. That record is fixed, not mere rhetoric that can be altered the next...
...straight-arrow reputation came under suspicion because of reports, confirmed by the White House, that in 1972 he had drawn on his political campaign funds to pay for clothing and plane tickets. The amounts were relatively small and, in the case of the plane tickets, quickly paid back to his campaign fund. But Ford had violated Congress's Code of Official Conduct, which states that "a member shall keep his campaign funds separate from his personal funds" and "shall expend no funds from his campaign account not attributable to bona fide campaign purpose." Such separations can be difficult and ambiguous...
...would be tragic if the investigations stretch out inconclusively until Nov. 2 and cast a pall of suspicion over the election. Yet there have been so many surprises in Campaign '76 that next week could bring some new blunder or fresh disclosure, tossing the contest once again topsy-turvy. No doubt Candidate Ford has been badly set back, but, given the nature of this election, the winner could turn out to be the man who makes the second-to-last goof...
...years it seemed that Novelist Muriel Spark had talent to burn. Then, in the late 1960s, a suspicion arose that burning was exactly what she had done with it. Gone was the somber exuberance of such earlier triumphs as Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means. The froth turned sour and her amused awareness of human daffiness was drowned in simple venom. The Abbess of Crewe (1974), Spark's deft parody of Watergate set in an English convent, gave reason to hope that all was not lost. The Takeover proves that nothing...
...that would be higher and anything below would be lower." Ford has repeatedly pounced on that to insist that Carter means to increase taxes on anyone making more than $14,000?even though Carter specifically had excluded "middle-income taxpayers" from such increases. Still, Carter is open to the suspicion that he did not know what the "median income" means...