Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week. In a friend-of-the-court brief, Justice urged the Supreme Court to establish that students do not have full protection of the Fourth Amendment against warrantless searches and that school authorities may search students for drugs or any other evidence of school violations on grounds of "reasonable suspicion...
...bring about that change, advocates of the strategy must overcome what J. William Breslin, the executive editor of the Malden Evening News during the project, characterizes as the Malden mentality, which he says is "a combination of apathy and suspicion of outsiders...
...describe my 1970 quote on women's "raging hormonal imbalance" as baroque sexism, citing my lurking "atavistic suspicion" that women are not stable enough to occupy positions of leadership. I do not want to get deep into the science of sexual differences, but it is the male hormone, testosterone, that makes the man, with his drive and macho behavior. The ambitious female politician or leader can come about only by an inborn androgyny, produced by a high level of that male hormone with its attendant aggressiveness. This male trait, admittedly not a very attractive one, is the single aptitude...
Mondale had also earned a moment of self-congratulation. He had shed enough of his Norwegian reserve to kill the old suspicion, once expressed by his Minnesota mentor Hubert Humphrey, that he lacked "fire in the belly." Still carrying Humphrey's banner of liberalism and contending that his was the party of compassion, Mondale bucked the austere, antigovernment spirit of the times. At several junctures he was down and almost out; each time he bounced back and recaptured the lead. If he scores his expected nomination victory, he will start the November race a heavy underdog. But he will start...
...went so far as to call for Block's resignation on conflict-of-interest grounds. Said the paper: "If he proposes bold new programs to help debt-ridden farmers," Block will be accused of "serving his own financial interests," and if he does not, "there will be the suspicion that the Secretary avoided the issue for the sake of appearances or that he is among a select group of farmers who will benefit if the Government doesn't intervene in the crisis." Block's response: "This is another example of how ridiculous election-year politics...