Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney General and a new special prosecutor, equipped with not quite convincing promises of independence. Both are reputable men, but it seems to us that these appointments, or even the possible appointment of a prosecutor by the court, can no longer clear away the hopeless miasma of deceit and suspicion...
...Nixon must leave office. Even some of Nixon's least likely critics turned against him. Columnist Joseph Alsop, ardent champion of the President's foreign policies, said that he must resign. Howard K Smith, ABC-TV'S highly independent commentator, declared that the tapes revelation "deepens suspicion inevitably that there has been a cover-up all along and it is still going on." Nixon, he said, must quit or be impeached...
...stand-by alert than many Americans were asking whether the war scare was really necessary. Undoubtedly, most previous Presidents would have received wholehearted public backing, at least initially; as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said, it was a symptom of the times that Nixon did not. Instead, the suspicion arose that the President had overreacted to Soviet tough talk, either because his Watergate woes had impaired his judgment or because he wanted to divert public attention from them with a show of brinkmanship...
...hypothesis: the body is fooled in space. It feels good but, some doctors suggest, does not recognize its anemia. Another suspicion is that zero G alters the way the blood flows to the internal organs. This could result, for example, in reduced stimulation of the kidneys, which produce a hormone to trigger red blood cell manufacture...
...adviser approached while a long distance call was being made, the lookout would notify the caller who in turn would modify his conversation to minimize suspicion...