Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was some suspicion that Pyongyang might be planning to use Bucher's confession and interview as grounds for a trial of Pueblo's crew. "The criminals who encroach upon others' sovereignty and commit provocative acts must receive deserving punishment," said the party newspaper Nodong Sinmun. "These criminals must be punished by law." Warned State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey: "The U.S. Government would consider any such moves by North Korea to be a deliberate aggravation of an already serious situation...
...show that the removal of the City Manager was being led by a "a man who--as I see it--has other than the best interests of the City of Cambridge at heart." He did not specify the man, but Crane commented after the meeting, "I have a slight suspicion that he was fingering...
...faculty. The professors, in turn, operated in "a milieu of confusion and uncertainty"-not to mention indifference-with respect to their powers. Too many students, the report said, displayed "an appallingly high rate of disaffection and disinterest toward" their own education. The result was "an atmosphere of distrust and suspicion...
...suspicion that haunts Western analysts is that the North is cynically-and successfully-exploiting the world's desire for peace in order to create pressure for a long or even permanent bombing pause. The Vatican weekly L'Osservatore della Domenica last week printed its harshest criticism yet of U.S. bombing policy, calling it a "blind alley" that undermines the U.S. "moral and political" position. Leaders of West Germany's Social Democratic Party urged Washington to end the bombing. Several U.S. Congressmen also called for a bombing pause and immediate negotiations, including Senator Robert Kennedy. "It seems...
...involved yet detached, never querulous but capable of showing marked distaste, even derision, for some of the bad actors in the great drama of this century. He is never grandiloquent, and for this reason the reader is likely to trust him more than Winston Churchill, whose rhetorical afflatus invites suspicion that the great man perhaps tended to force history into his own dramatic cast of mind. It was, however, as Churchill's man, his emissary (his "dogsbody" as the English say, or his gillie, as a Scottish laird might say) that Macmillan played a large, though unobtrusive role...