Word: suspicions
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Anti-Semitism has had a long and troubled history in Poland. Though Poles can claim a better record of tolerance than their Russian and German neighbors, suspicion and fear of the Jew as an outsider have all too frequently erupted over the centuries in persecution and pogroms. On the eve of World War II, Poland had the largest Jewish population in Europe. The Nazi Holocaust, postwar migration and a later purge reduced a once thriving community of 3.3 million to a tiny minority of some...
...would anyone reawaken the anti-Semitism issue in a country where there are now so few Jews to attack? In fact there was an overwhelming suspicion that the rally organizers had another target in mind. Coming only days after the temporary detention of Dissident Leader Jacek Kuron and other incidents of harassment against Solidarity, the rally seemed to many to be an attempt to discredit the independent trade union with an emotional "Zionist" label...
...home islands and territorial waters, but no one in East Asia, including the Japanese, wants the U.S. to prod Japan into taking responsibility for other countries as well. On this subject, Ambassador Hahm of South Korea clenches his fist, purses his lips and raises his voice: "There is a suspicion throughout the area that the U.S. may be tempted to strengthen Japan as a surrogate. That plays on the 'ugly Japanese' syndrome. It conjures up the nightmare-an image out of hell-of the swaggering Japanese. Many countries here have already had to deal with a militarily humiliated...
...leftist guerrillas or -equally bad-to a coup by rightists misusing American aid, Washington would suffer an unnecessary setback round the world. The European allies and several friendly Latin American regimes, which agree with the goal of stopping the arms flow, might be confirmed in a budding suspicion that Washington is being ineffectively militaristic. Why is the Administration taking the extra risk? Says one policymaker: "We feel strongly that we must not be, or seem, equivocal. We don't want to stand up there and say: 'Well, too bad if the government falls; let's just roll...
...lottery procedure is covered with much suspicion," Michael Fridkin '81, who presented the motion, said last night, adding that "if we could eliminate the students' suspicion about the process, we could get rid of a lot of their unhappiness with the lottery results...