Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESPITE SUCH governmental assurances, however, religious leaders continue to view the Moon ruling with deep suspicion. They are disturbed by phrases such as "legitimate church activity," especially in light of the recent Bob Jones University case. In that case, the government wanted to withdraw Bob Jones' tax exemption unless they changed their practice--which stemmed from religious beliefs--of forbidding interracial dating. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that the IRS had the power to rescind the tax exemption, on the basis that the school's stance defied "public policy...
...question the press should concern itself with is whether even the suspicion of sleaze should be thrust into the spotlight, given the near impossibility of removing the taint of allegations. Reputations take years to build and minutes to destroy...
...Administration officials were able to claim that Reagan's invitation to Gromyko was nothing more than a traditional gesture, though they neglected to point out that Washington has not extended the courtesy since 1978. Reagan expressed cautious optimism that a session with Gromyko might lift some of the "suspicion and hostility" that have lately poisoned U.S.-Soviet relations and "maybe convince him that the U.S. means no harm." He hardly needed to add that the chance to be seen shaking hands with Gromyko in the White House Oval Office could reap rich political dividends for himself. Such statesmanlike vignettes...
Robinson is prickly and proud of it: his record testifies to his suspicion of any authority but his own. He twice left chained prisoners outside a state penitentiary after officials refused to accept inmates from his overcrowded Pulaski County jail. When a black federal judge dispatched an official to oversee Robinson's facilities, the sheriff ousted the appointee and called the judge a "token...
...novice, passing the manuscript of his first story around the BBC staff room to get comments from older, wiser associates. By contrast, the Naipaul we meet in the Ivory Coast has become a self-assured world traveler who feels confident attributing poor service at an Abidjan restaurant to his suspicion that the European manager is off for the day, prompting the busboys to return to their "African" ways. Thirty years later, Naipaul is cynical, fazed, pessimistic about the chances that a primitive culture will ever be able to fully join the modern world...