Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news that yet another dinner, this time for the diplomatic corps, was being canceled and another meeting was being postponed, a crucial one scheduled for this week with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Finally, despite the insistence of his aides that Georges Pompidou was not seriously ill,* popular suspicion that he would resign and plunge France into an electoral campaign gained fresh ground...
...trials themselves have a different complexion, with juries approximating the city's racial makeup. And juries virtually never vote to convict if there is any suspicion of police brutality. This, perhaps more than any other change, has brought court reformers into head-on collision with the police. A columnist wrote in the Detroit Police Officers' Association newspaper: "If a person accused of a crime appears before Judge James Del Rio and says he was beaten by the police, Del Rio calls the policeman a liar, and dismisses the case." Gary Lee, the association's president, declares...
...however, escape the suspicion that the remarkable degree of independence permitted them as instructors might be equally a matter of indifference as of conscious educational strategy, and that whatever freedom and security allowed them as teaching fellows, they find no counterpart in salary--their lives being bound on one side by a persistent and increasingly insistent financial insecurity and on the other by the spectre of unemployment...
While gasoline lines are growing longer and local rationing plans are proliferating in the U.S., fears of a disastrous scarcity of oil are fading rapidly in most of the rest of the world. To many Americans, that contrast must suggest the suspicion that the energy crisis is something that is occurring only in America. Unhappily, it is more than a suspicion: the U.S. does in fact seem now to be bearing almost the entire burden of the world oil-supply shortage...
There is a growing suspicion, too, amply borne out by these three books-one Victorian, one turn-of-the-century, one from the great Depression-that a special truthfulness resides in pictures produced by a photographer who confronts his subjects steadily and holds them in affection...