Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week. Indeed, the staff was settling back into a state of near normality. In the Reagan Administration, however, it is normal for the Baker-Stockman wing of advisers and those led by Casey, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese and National Security Adviser William Clark to eye each other with considerable suspicion...
...apparent multiple sources of Carter campaign papers reaching the Reagan team, however trivial much of them seemed to be, fed the suspicion of those with a conspiratorial bent that a political espionage operation may have been conducted by the Reagan aides. To Washington Post Columnist Mary McGrory, the incident reinforced her theory that "Republicans think of political campaigns as war-in contrast to Democrats, who see them as sporting events...
...sickness was psychosomatic. Kafka succumbed to tuberculosis in 1924 at the age of 40. But he regarded even real disease with paranoid suspicion: "My brain and my lungs must have conspired in secret." He believed in "only one illness, and medicine hunts it blindly like a beast through unending forests." The malady was life itself...
Desperate measures are clearly required. Tony's minister father offers to pay Miss Doubloon for the young wag's private tutoring. She agrees and sets her room in the local boardinghouse as the appointed place. Her landlady greets Tony's arrival there with dark suspicion. She senses an aura of incipient scandal hovering about Miss Doubloon. The teacher will, in fact, soon ask her class to read The Scarlet Letter, provoking local bluenoses to declare: "We're gonna tighten our Bible Belt!" On this snowy winter evening, the landlady's wicked mind proves prescient. Upstairs...
...opinion at CDC. NIH Researcher Fauci, who staunchly believes that the culprit is a virus, has been collecting helper T-cells from AIDS victims to look for bits of viruses within their genetic codes. So far, however, this and other complex methods of detecting viruses have yielded nothing conclusive. Suspicion focuses on two viruses: one is a member of the herpes family called CMV; the other, called human T-cell leukemia virus, or HTLV, is linked to leukemia and lymphoma...