Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radek, the man who did it all, makes no effort to avoid Maigret, who soon develops a strong suspicion that he is the actual killer. But since Maigret has no evidence whatsoever, Radek revels in taunting the inspector by all but admitting the murder. Radek, meanwhile, has collected 1,000,000 francs for the job from the impatient heir of the now disemboweled murder victim. You see plenty of Paris in the daytime from the top of the Eiffel tower; now you see fully as much of it at night, as the camera and Maigret follow Radek on a tour...
...vice-consul brought up a trip behind the iron curtain that Emmanuel had taken in 1947. Stanger insisted, Emmanuel reports, that because of this trip "there was a strong suspicion that I may be a Communist...
...hand, a man who professes to be "a man of God" . . . declares that the Catholic Church seeks to destroy religious freedom. He insinuates that the Catholic Church, the faith of 350 million people, cannot be trusted, thereby creating suspicion, bigotry and hatred...
...United States of Indonesia. The second was the U.S.'s bulky, soft-spoken H. Merle Cochran. For 18 months, Cochran had been the moving force on the United Nations Commission for Indonesia, had skillfully steered the Dutch and Indonesian negotiators through a tangled jungle of mutual distrust and suspicion. Said Cochran: "I have the utmost confidence...
There was scarcely a Communist leader in the Russian satellite countries who in 1949 had not been reported under Moscow's suspicion and on the verge of death or demotion. Nobody in the West could be quite sure who was in high favor or in hot water. Western observers thought that the likeliest purge candidates for 1950 were Rumania's Ana Pauker (who was conspicuously absent from the last Cominform conclave), Czechoslovakia's President Klement Gottwald and Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis...