Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rope & Iron. Suspicion was first aroused when two fishermen left Port-of-Spain in an outboard-powered pirogue on a calm day and never came back. Four days later two other fishermen went out in their boat and also failed to return. The last to report their boat was a fisherman who said he saw them hove to about 10 at night with a larger craft alongside. Then a man's body, bound and strapped to a 98-lb. chunk of iron, washed ashore in the Trinidad Yacht Club's bay. The victim was identified as Philbert Peyson...
Thus, in the atmosphere of anxiety which has been created, the mere unconfirmed charges have become an excuse for suggesting the abridgment of rights of citizens. The more this atmosphere of suspicion and fear is built up by newspapers overplaying irresponsible charges, the greater will be the readiness of people to do away with "technicalities" and rights...
Those who still harbor a sneaking suspicion that this is a historical novel have only to turn to the 30 pages of notes and bibliography at the back...
...setback in Lübeck, Germany, in 1930, when 72 of 251 infants died after being vaccinated with what was thought to be BCG. Investigation proved that the children had been vaccinated with another culture, but the outcry was so great throughout the world that BCG was regarded with suspicion for years...
...freshman track coach Carl G. Olson knows about the Rhode Island State yearlings is that his team will meet them at Soldiers Field at 1:30 p.m. this afternoon. He has a faint suspicion, however, that they will provide plenty of opposition, because "Rhode Island State usually comes up with good teams...