Word: suspicions
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Crimson reporters traversed the building in search of the committee's meeting and located it in the Back Bay room. To avoid suspicion, they quickly left the floor. But by the time one intrepid journalist used a stairwell to return to the hallway adjacent to the conference room, a stern man with folded arms and wearing a black suit had been posted outside the meeting. The reporter evaded the guard's queries, but to no avail. In the hotel lobby, an employee dressed in a pristine uniform approached the journalist and asked him if he was a guest...
...Tories have pulled from a deep deficit in the opinion polls to a 4-point lead over Labour. Even if Major wins, however, he would remain under the eye of a formidable presence. Thatcher has been grumbling lately that she was unseated as a result of a plot, a suspicion for which others can find no evidence. Last week she became president of a new group, Conservative Way Forward, dedicated to pushing Thatcherite policies; it will blow the whistle on any backsliding. Even out of power, this lady is not for turning...
...serious is Yeltsin's conversion to liberal democracy? The hard-to-please Muscovite intelligentsia were deeply skeptical of Yeltsin at first. After all, as Moscow party boss he actually received a boisterous delegation from Pamyat, the openly anti-Semitic Russian ultranationalist organization. But suspicion turned to respect after Yeltsin won election to the Congress of People's Deputies in 1989 by winning 5 million out of the 5.5 million votes cast in Moscow...
...Shilts said, a Navy enlisted man, whose sexual advances were rejected by the women aboard ship, posted signs reading "No Dikes." When a woman sailor complained to the captain, he ignored her complaint of sexual harassment, and instead put her under investigation on suspicion of being a lesbian, Schilts said...
Experts agree that casual gambling, in which participants wager small sums, is not necessarily bad. Compulsive betting, however, almost always involves destructive behavior. Last fall police in Pennsauken, N.J., arrested a teenage boy on suspicion of burglary. The youth said he stole items worth $10,000 to support his gambling habit. Bryan, a 17-year-old from Cumberland, N.J., recently sought help after he was unable to pay back the $4,000 he owed a sports bookmaker. Greg from Philadelphia says he began placing weekly $200 bets with bookies during his sophomore year in college. "Pretty soon...