Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still another scandal, after six bodies were found floating in the city's waterways, suspicion focused not on Chicago's gangsters but on Chicago's cops. Some of the victims were thought to be dealers in heroin who had failed to buy off the police with bribe money...
...tyrants who rule the world and brutalize its people thrive on ignorance, doubt and suspicion. Truth is radical; it works like water gently seeping, eating away at the structures of oppression. I no longer think of a university as necessarily a staging ground for the Kissingers; I think the Kissingers pervert the meaning of a university. My disgust for Harvard is no longer so general. It is directed at the Kissingers and the Bundys and the McNamaras and their apologists who murder and lie and then smugly smirk behind the liberal values they betray...
...listen to and read the comments offered by the liberal and crypto-liberal television, newspaper and newsmagazine reporters, savoring every rumor, fact, suspicion and information from a reliable source with regard to the dilemma faced by the present Administration, it occurs to me that there has not been this much anticipatory chop licking since Daniel spent an uncomfortable afternoon in the lions...
...change has not only afflicted all oilmen but has also left them open to new forms of criticism. All have been tarred with the same vague but pervasive public suspicion that they have conspired to create the shortage-a charge for which there is no evidence-or at minimum have taken advantage of it to enrich themselves by raising prices. Much of the attack focuses on Exxon's executives, ranging downward from Canadian-born Chairman John Kenneth Jamieson (see box following page). Such men are several light-years removed from the vulgar, wheeler-dealer, overnight Texas oil millionaires of popular...
...Rotterdam Iranian oil that would normally go elsewhere, and switched away from Rotterdam the Arabian oil that King Faisal decreed could not go to The Netherlands. By all evidence, the oil shippers have done a deft job; people who two months ago feared disastrous oil scarcities now voice suspicion because the shortfalls have not really been...