Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since. When it finally came to trial, Mrs. Gandhi, in an unprecedented move, took the witness stand for 6% hours in her own defense. Her appearance turned into a sensation when the editor of a Hindi newspaper was caught entering the court with a loaded gun and arrested on suspicion of planning to assassinate her. Two days later, would-be assassins also attempted-unsuccessfully-to kill the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...
...lately and was going on a brief holiday. Since then, various rumors have put him in Spain, Italy, Brazil and the U.S.; he has also been reported to be still in Buenos Aires or on an air force base near the city. Wherever he was, there was a growing suspicion among Argentines that López Rega simply wanted to put some distance between himself and the unpopular measures the government is trying to impose...
...Harvard--and the theory is true. Harvard is a center of scholarship and thinking. Another theory stresses how Harvard cuts students adrift from their old ways of thinking, until if they still can't choose where to live and what to live for, they at least share Thoreau's suspicion that resignation to a predetermined role would just mean confirmed desperation...
...hadn't known that. As best as I can recall no one ever invited me to any graduation exercises and if they did the summons was so muted there were few who heard the call. I never met anyone in my class who went to his graduation. My suspicion is that the administration didn't know where to put us all. And I think they were glad to see us go and get back to normal again. People were always talking about that. They even thought the waitresses with their menus might come back to the dining halls...
...have already posted restrictions on textile imports. Last week the British automobile industry, with protectionist action clearly in mind, formally asked the European Economic Community to investigate charges that Japanese cars are being "dumped" in Britain. In the U.S., the United Automobile Workers union is trying to document a suspicion that Volkswagen Rabbits are being dumped in America...