Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affidavit represents a shabby attempt on the part of the government to purchase loyalty. The truly loyal will be repelled and alienated by this token of their government's suspicion, while the disloyal will not balk at signing a scrap of paper...
...full of sawdust. For a while the guards inspected the sawdust; finding nothing, they inspected more carefully, and finally called the NKVD. After several weeks, special security agents flew in to check the sawdust grain by grain; they too, found nothing. Weeks after the worker had been cleared of suspicion, a friend asked him what he was stealing. He answered, "wheelbarrows...
...Ndola field too low. "It looks like a typical case of power failure or faulty instruments," said one. Another possibility: pilot error. Captain Per-Erik Hallonquist, although a veteran of 7,000 hours and countless jungle flights, had been on continuous duty for 36 hours. But some doubt and suspicion would probably always linger over the wrecked DC-6 in the woods outside Ndola...
Though Adams became skilled in the subtleties of diplomacy, he remained at heart a pragmatic, hidebound Yankee who viewed Europe's sophisticated society with suspicion. Far from being awed by Franklin, who was lionized by the French, Adams found the old man to be more interested in wining and dining than in the job of persuading the French to help the embattled young nation fight against the British. "The Life of Dr. Franklin was a Scene of continual discipation," wrote Adams. "He came home at all hours from Nine to twelve O Clock at night." Though Adams faithfully recorded...
...Press that it was missing a bet by ignoring Cleveland's immigrant population (then 65%). Andrica proved his point. Roving and reporting the city's European enclaves-the Italian colony on Mayfield Road, the Slovenes along St. Clair Avenue-Andrica watched with satisfaction as the walls of suspicion crumbled between nationalities. By 1932, when Andrica proposed that Editor Louis B. Seltzer send him abroad to look for relatives of Cleveland's foreign-born, the editor was only too happy to comply...