Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where an entire department, not to say a faculty, of a professedly liberal institution, exhibits a homogeneity of sentiment grossly unrepresentative of the division of opinion in the community of scholarship or the community at large, a legitimate suspicion of bias is afforded. Within the social sciences in particular, the representation of those dissident opinions reflecting vital intellectual and political currents is the surest guarantee that instructors are being freely and impartially chosen. At Harvard in the past there has been a consistent over-representation of the conservative point of view, and we recommend that this be corrected...
...long as they did not plant any under him. Last week he received a letter threatening violence if he did not join up. The Prime Minister then instructed his Minister of Justice to rush through Eire's Parliament bills giving the Government power to arrest suspected extremists on suspicion, execute them after a summary trial before secret military tribunals...
...putting a squeeze on those gentlemen in Congress who wanted to cut down the Relief appropriation for the next five months from $875,000,000 to $725,000,000. Fortnight ago when the House passed the bill (397-to-16) with the lower figure there was some suspicion that the President had laid a political trap for Congressional economizers. Last week, whether or not he helped to lay the trap, he helped to squeeze its jaws shut...
...sure the aunt would let tiny Tim take him back if only Scooty could be allowed to bark to Auntie over the radio. This was just the sort of schmalz We, the People wanted, but when the woman arrived, after due publicity she brought no dog. Suspicion was that there had never been one. But the show went on, with a rented dog who yelped convincingly enough when the sound effects man pulled his tail...
Retorted Madam Secretary: "It may interest you to know that one of my specialties is relieving tension. ... I hold pretty moderate views on [labor problems] and when I have an opportunity to discuss them I find that I generally allay suspicion and even modify ill-will and dislike...