Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-boiled boxing fans thought I.B.C. deserved to lose a lot more than that for allowing the likes of La Motta to have a shot at the title. As recently as February, roundheeled Jake had been soundly thrashed in Montreal by a Frenchman named Laurent Dauthuille. A cloud of suspicion still hung over La Motta's fight with Philadelphia's Billy Fox two years ago, which the referee stopped in the fourth because of Jake's feeble performance. About all last week's fight proved was that Cerdan could not whip La Motta with one hand...
...which launched the Marshall Plan. Marshall would be remembered more as a great peacemaker than as a great soldier, Truman predicted."I believe that in the years to come we shall look back on this undertaking [the Marshall Plan] as the dividing line . . . between the old era of national suspicion, economic hostility and isolationism, and the new era of mutual cooperation to increase prosperity throughout the world." ¶Appointed Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, 49, Democratic National Committeewoman from Kansas, as Treasurer of the United States. A former actress, later a bank president and storekeeper in Richland, Kans., Mrs. Clark...
...nervous. Leaning on his meat counter, he declared: "I am still making a desperate effort to apprehend the guilty party." Sheriff Hatcher called in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and dug the bullets out of Picky Pie. At week's end, the G.B.I, arrested two white men on suspicion. They figured there were more, and were still looking for them...
...Crowd Romance. Last week in San Francisco, the Northerners voted to consider the question of changing the denomination's name to the less regional-sounding "American Baptist Convention." To counter any Southern suspicion that this was a new act of aggression, the Northerners also voted to invite their big Southern sister to unite with them in establishing the "American Baptist Convention." But there was scant hope that the Dixie Baptists would accept this extended hand...
...novels of Britain's Ivy Compton-Burnett have received so much highbrow adulation that there is a growing suspicion that they must be unreadable. The suspicion has some foundation: when Elizabeth Bowen says that "Miss Compton-Burnett is always fundamentally truthful at the expense of realism," she is simply saying that many readers will never have the vaguest notion of what Compton-Burnett is being so truthful about...