Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strengthening of Germany. They see--as do the Germans--that England and the U.S. are bidding against the Russians for German friendship. They think the stakes are too high to play, since it will take a lot of yielding to match the Russian bid of a united Germany. They suspect a willingness in Britain and the U.S. to rearm Germany as an enemy of the East...
...second half of Bush's thesis is more acceptable. His belief that science in a democracy is necessarily more creative than that in a totalitarian state is pretty suspect--at the end of the war Nazi scientist were well ahead of the Allies in the development of aircraft, guided missiles, tanks, and submarines, among other things. But his does not mean that we must be unprepared...
...Princeton, and Dartmouth, and pad the rest of the schedule with Amherst, Connecticut, and N.Y.U. Under this system we could easily achieve a season record which could always be better than .500. Unfortunately, since Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale are already out beating the bushes for young football players, we suspect that our traditional rivals will win about 75% of those games...
Said Dr. Andrewes: "We strongly suspect that catching a cold in real life depends on receiving quite a small dose of virus at a time when one's defenses are momentarily off their guard-looking the other way." What the defenses are, exactly, Dr. Andrewes has no idea...
...doesn't, I'll break his neck!" Actually, Vulcan had nothing to fear from Mars. The god of war was better looking, but Vulcan had all his hair. Venus' real weakness was not gods but men, something her mother-in-law was shrewd enough to suspect...