Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paratroops were viewed with particular suspicion since on a recent visit to Luangprabang they had flooded the town with $3,000 in phony money, including $200 at the local brothels...
...Humanities course, "as soon as Pusey gets these Christians off his back." Menon outlines his course for a CRIMSON reporter: "I think you will say, when you see my course, 'Oh my goodness me, what a lovely course!' In it, I seek to synthesize the central eastern tradition of suspicion, with the central western tradition of hypocrisy...
...Deep Suspicion. With it grew the grumbling in the cities and villages and in the army. Because of floods and civil war, rice stocks in Saigon are down to an alltime low of 20,000 tons, and prices have jumped 50% to 100%. Defeatism is widespread in the middle class, as the black-market rate on the piaster has dropped 30% to more than 100 to the U.S. dollar. Along with increased military action, the Reds are stepping up subversion with front organizations headed by respectable sympathizers. Many Saigon university students, who supposedly went to their villages during vacation, actually...
Tolerance would urge that such productions are not intended to be read at all but to form an expensive, highly colored, temporary parquetry for the playroom floor. But suspicion suggests that the same kind of mind is at work here that tries to purge Huckleberry Finn from the schools, that deliberately holds back "reading skills" to some arbitrary "age-group level...
There are obvious dangers in relying too much on free and open discussion among students; the free marketplace of ideas is not always infallible. On the other hand, squelching debate helps no one. It promotes suspicion of the Administration among the student body. It keeps students out of many issues that involve them. It makes many policies totally bewildering. It may even smother an idea or two that would contribute to a better final decision...