Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...routine attempt to create new security files for people from earlier administrations who might still need access to the complex. But the vast majority of people on the list were low- and mid-level staff members who hadn't been inside the place in years. Raising further suspicion was the presence of former staff members from Clinton's travel office who had been fired seven months before, replaced by Clinton loyalists, and investigated by the FBI on charges of misappropriation leveled by the White House. (The charges proved baseless.) Bob Dole went so far as to draw comparisons with Nixon...
Through it all, public suspicion will continue to fester. "Yeltsin may win honestly," says Paul Goble, an assistant director at Radio Free Europe, "but nobody in Russia is going to believe it." Naturally, Russians have already reduced the outcome to a joke: Yeltsin is asked what will happen if he wins the election. He replies, "Russia will have a new President." And if he loses? Yeltsin answers, "Then you will have your old President." New or old, the President may have revived his campaign, but he has not restored much respect for himself or the office he holds...
...real problem is deep-seated black suspicion of law enforcement that dates back to the days when J. Edgar Hoover's FBI put more zeal into collecting dirt on Martin Luther King Jr. than into protecting civil-rights workers. It does not help that two ATF agents who face potential disciplinary action for taking part in the racist shenanigans at the so-called Good Ol' Boys Roundup in May 1995 were originally part of the church-burning task force. They have since been reassigned...
Every catastrophe is so engraved in our genes that it's easy to conceive of the world in terms of fear, suspicion, being on alert; to dichotomize everything as if there are no nuances between living and dying. I don't say that some of the dangers are not real. Many of our fears are justified; after all, we're not surrounded by the Salvation Army...
...will be offered in 17 lots, each containing as many as 433 covers. Only one lot contains a single cover: that of Marilyn Monroe, which is expected to fetch as much as $1,500. Jackie Kennedy might have been promising were it not for the suspicion that in her case the cover was signed by a White House secretary...