Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enervating marathon that passed as the 1988 campaign, presidential candidates were forced to refute publicly rumors of homosexuality, mental illness, illegal-drug use and extramarital affairs. Yet the Donna Rice episode, following months of pious denials of womanizing by Gary Hart, can only have strengthened the public's cynical suspicion that smoke inevitably signals an inferno of secret scandal. Hart's dramatic downfall was an embarrassing spectacle, especially for all the journalists who missed the story. Pam Maples, a political reporter for The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, expressed a typical reaction: "This paper has tended to be very conservative...
...young Eritrean from northern Ethiopia, William Ahmed was arrested in 1984 on suspicion of harboring guerrillas from the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and was packed off to a prison in Addis Ababa. Tortured repeatedly over the next four years, Ahmed was finally moved to a hospital. From there, he escaped to Djibouti, where he purchased a Somalian passport and a ticket to Canada...
...long expressed about the Strategic Defense Initiative. What fizzled was not the payload -- a satellite designed to generate Buck Rogers-style neutral-particle beams in space -- but a thoroughly conventional solid-fuel Aries booster. Coming after an aborted mission in March using a Delta launcher, the unsuccessful mission crystallized suspicion that SDI is so riddled with potential failures that it will never get off the ground...
...corsage. You know . . ." the newcomer repeated, gesturing feebly toward his own chest and wrist. The clerk looked at him with new suspicion, consulted his superior by the back tulips and returned to announce through a curled lip, "We don't do corsages...
...product of his native Niagara Falls, New York, a largely blue collar town known less as a conservative hotbed than as a vacation site and source of gift shop kitsch. Through his father, an ardent Democrat who works in the state's department of labor, Granieri absorbed a suspicion of Republican politics. "When Ronald Reagan was elected president," says the younger Granieri, "I was under the impression it would be the end of the world. My father hated...