Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly a sovereign agent, that Richardson by his own admission has been making the hard decisions on Agnew, and that Richardson reports to the man who put him in his job: Richard Nixon. It evoked the harrowing spectacle of the President and Vice President of the U.S., both under suspicion for different reasons, maneuvering against each other for survival...
...House does not conduct trials," Rodino said later, "and this, in effect, would be a trial of a criminal proceeding." At length the Democrats decided that there was at least a suspicion that Agnew was trying to "obstruct" justice rather than get "a fair trial." If the House looked into the case, Agnew would have all the more reason to call for a halt to the grand jury's actions...
...scene was Naples, but a Naples that few would recognize. The cafes, the hotels and the markets were eerily quiet and empty. For infection-wary prostitutes, it was never on weekdays as well as Sundays. Sullen crowds milled in the streets, and people eyed each other with suspicion. A placard outside the Zi' Teresa restaurant - closed by a strike, although there were no customers to speak of anyway - explained the city's unsettled mood. CHOLERA BROUGHT us TO OUR KNEES, it read, NOW WE ARE WAITING FOR THE COUP DE GRACE...
...only potential area of conflict is the East German suspicion that the Russians, in the Brezhnev era of détente, may be getting soft on capitalism. "It is possible for us to be more militant than Moscow," says Max Rausch, 75, a grand old man of the Communist Party. "After all, we live on the border...
Though his letters to Felice point shakily toward marriage, Kafka tells her only of his drawbacks. He claims to be weak and easily fatigued. He raises the suspicion of impotence: "You are a girl and want a man, not a flabby worm on the earth." He writes how he hates his civil service job at Prague's Workers' Accident Insurance Institute...