Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Officials of the Providence Post Office have investigated the College Record Club of Brown University and cleared the club of suspicion of fraud. Carelessness, rather than an attempt to bilk customers, was responsible for delivery failures, they said...
Several antiques from the 18th century remain us useless and costly impediments to efficient government. The colonials instituted the Governor's Council out of suspicion of George III's governors, but today no one considers Furcolo or Volpe despotic enough to merit such a millstone. Yet the Council remains, duplicating other posts, clogging bureaucratic channels and obstructing the chief executive. The county government as well (except for its courts) serves no purpose other than devouring the state's taxes...
...President-elect. Principally, they fell around the controversial appointment of Kennedy's brother Bobby, 35, as U.S. Attorney General. Among the dissenters were the liberal New Republic and Nation magazines. The New Republic felt that the Department of Justice "should be kept as free as possible from the suspicion of political taint," and darkly suggested that Bobby's appointment "will give aid and comfort to the enemies of integration." The Nation deplored Bobby's conduct as counsel for the McClellan Committee: "He engaged in personal vendettas; he made it known that...
...Simon still spends much of his time poking about his stores, chatting with clerks to see how much more paper work can be cut out. Any operation that has been in effect over six months-long enough for the paper work to sprout-is under suspicion...
...informal discussion, Mrs. Roosevelt stated that the only solution to the cold war is to remove the suspicion on both sides. An agreement in which the Soviets promise to "win the world over to Communism openly and not misrepresent the U.S." would help, she said...