Word: suspicions
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...nation's move. Other analogies are more certain. Both the British and the Israelis applied short-term solutions to long-range problems. Both could have avoided armed conflict through negotiations (though this would have been harder for the Israelis), but either because of carelessness, stubbornness, arrogance or suspicion, each chose not to. Both told their allies that what they were doing was good not only for themselves but for the world as well. Both saw themselves functioning as liberators. Both were responding to hostilities; in the case of Britain, to a single overt act; in the case of Israel...
Noting that the United States has 16 times more lawyers per capita than Japan, a leading Japanese businessman last night said that suspicion and excessive emphasis on cautious decisions id hampering business performance in this country...
Watergate has performed its elaborate series of cultural cancellations, like the wakes of four or five different ships mingling and neutralizing one another. The suspicion lingers in many minds that the whole affair will eventually fade, enduring only as a kind of 1970s cultural period piece, with no more moral significance than, say, a vicuna coat or a deep freezer. Even now, says Washington Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "Watergate does not have much impact on anyone any more. Fact and fiction are so interwoven that people don't know which is which. They don't remember the Saturday...
Rose Mary Woods, 64, Nixon's longtime personal secretary. Her contortions at federal court hearings on White House tapes, as she tried to demonstrate how she could have mistakenly erased 18½ minutes by simultaneously pressing recorder button and foot pedal while answering telephone, led to widespread suspicion that she was covering up for her boss. Helped Nixon at San Clemente on his post-Watergate books, then retired in 1976 on Government pension of at least $27,000 a year. Lives in Watergate apartments...
...handful of brave Chinese willing to narrate the horror stories of their lives: scientists and scholars sent to "reform through labor" camps for dozens of years; women tortured and imprisoned for sleeping with their lovers; nameless men punished for their grandfathers' crimes; families murdered for a mere suspicion of disloyalty...