Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public assistance. The chronically depressed coal mines have cut their payrolls from 125,000 men to 50,000 in little more than a decade. The welfare statism of the New Deal still carries a lot of magic in the mountain glens. Yet the voters also retain a back-country suspicion of foreign entanglements, and Kennedy and Humphrey, both liberals and internationalists, must walk a fine line as they campaign there...
...long time after India got its freedom, Socialist Jawaharlal Nehru regarded foreign investors with the narrow-eyed suspicion of a spinster convinced that friendly attentions from any man probably conceal evil designs. So U.S. investors passed India by. After all, there were plenty of other places for them to invest their money-places where markets were more developed and officialdom far less mistrustful. General Motors even closed down its automotive assembly plant in Bombay...
...London News Chronicle concluded that Strauss had been "more of a fool than a knave"; the Economist decided that West Germany's disregard of foreign susceptibilities was probably more lack of imagination than indifference. More serious was the widespread suspicion that the Strauss plan was Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's way of serving notice that if the Western powers failed to stand up to Russia over Berlin, or otherwise took insufficient note of German concerns, West Germany would make political and military arrangements outside the alliance...
Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl. The master of the grisly grin concentrates largely on females in these stories, and the results will make most householders regard their wives, cats and landladies with renewed suspicion...
Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl. The master of the grisly grin concentrates largely on females in these stories, and the results will make most householders regard their wives, cats and landladies with renewed suspicion...