Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chalk sidelines are uneven, hastily drawn and a bit spotty. The referees are there, too, in black and white striped jerseys, but when they feel that it's too cold for their comfort, the game clock starts to speed up a bit too quickly to escape a furtive suspicion...
...Association (1.7 million members)-have traditionally opposed merit pay, out of suspicion that bonuses would be given out unfairly and would cut into general pay raises for entire faculties...
...almost unnoticed creation of Executive Orders eroding freedom of information--such as one signed by President Regan on April 2, 1983, which said government officials were no longer required to consider the public's right to know when classifying documents. (of course, such tightening measures and obvious suspicion then contribute to worsening relations.) In the end, even if most agree that the Rosenbergs were convicted on questionable grounds, the release of information on the issue brings some insight--a value in itself--to what was otherwise a blot on the country's upholding of human rights ideals. National security...
...over. At last, after so many months of poisonous suspicion, a kind of undeclared civil war that finally engaged all three branches of the American Government, the ordeal had ended. As the Spirit of 76 in one last errand arced across central Missouri carrying Richard Nixon to his retirement, Gerald Rudolph Ford stood in the East Room of the White House, placed his hand upon his eldest son's Bible, and repeated the presidential oath "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." By the time the 37th President of the U.S. arrived at the Pacific...
...stimulant called Benzedrine last week kept college directors of health in dithers of worry. Cases of over-dosage have been uncovered at the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago. Elsewhere students who, while cramming for final examinations, collapse, faint, develop insomnia, or show a slowed pulse rate are under suspicion of using the substance. They call it "pep pills...