Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committed the U.S.-to take the "first step" if the other nations would take it, too. The risks, the President knew, were considerable. A faulty step could involve the U.S. in acrimony with its non-nuclear allies-especially with West Germany, which is already stirring with the unfounded suspicion that Washington is about to conclude an arms "deal" with Moscow before ensuring German reunification. A more faulty step could give the Soviets an enormous propaganda victory-or even worse, bring great peril...
...carried on in buildings not distinguished by any peculiar shape. Even if planes were equipped with monstrous Geiger counter devices, neither nation would have a very sure idea of what was going on. Intended as a means for initial communication, "open skies" might possibly breed increased fear and suspicion, especially should either side find it difficult to account for various mysterious installations. Even if aerial inspection were limited to flights over Arctic airfields it could neither check surprise attack effectively nor inspire much mutual trust. Inspecting planes would have to be searched by counter-inspectors, and even with this there...
...olive rose to the top, and bobbed there, mocking him. "Now what would you say?" I said, with just a suspicion of triumph in my voice...
...said of each of them, as one critic said of Lucky Jim: "He has one skin too few. but his is not the sensitiveness of the young man in earlier twentieth century fiction: it is the phony to which his nerve ends are tremblingly exposed, and at the least suspicion of the phony he goes tough...
...asks over and over, how could Chambers in 1948 have found the time and seclusion necessary to make a bogus typewriter, and then plant the machine so that Hiss' lawyers would "discover" it later? Why would he not destroy the machine instead of leaving himself open to possible suspicion of forgery...