Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schwabacher's suspicion was fortified by the Boston Traveler yesterday afternoon, which ran a banner headline and several huge pictures describing the "scuffle" its reporter had with the demonstrators...
...Suspicion Fortified...
...prior to his arrest, but Premier Tage Erlander was not informed until after agents had picked up Wennerstrom on the way to his office. As opposition critics pounced, Erlander went on television to explain: "It is impossible for the government to be informed of every person who is under suspicion. We need more proof in a democratic society before we can take action." It sounded like a lame excuse to Liberals and Conservatives, who demanded a parliamentary investigation. Meanwhile, always the gentleman, Wennerstrom reportedly asked his attorney to send back his Legion of Merit, calmly faced a probable life sentence...
...interrogator at work falls far short of Koestler's hard clarity. The best of the book shows the British army, all aclank with methodical, motorized idiocy, snark hunting after terrorists in the villages of Cyprus. Price's half-developed central idea leads disturbingly to the suspicion that if civilization does come to a halt, the last moving parts will have been not the generals or the blinkered politicians, but the interrogators-asking probing, arrogant questions long after the answers have any significance...
...into the act "to weaken our resolution." A little later, Wilson himself got a letter from Ward, boasting of his supposed help in settling the Cuba matter, but filed it away as coming from a crank. Before Ivanov was recalled to Moscow* in January 1963, he aroused suspicion in other ways. A bridge player who took a hand in some very high-level games, he lost steadily, as much as $140 a night. "I do not believe the Soviet embassy's petty cash would stand such losses every night," said one Labor M.P. caustically, "unless they got something...