Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unnecessary Adjective: "If we make a habit of saying 'the true facts are these,' we shall come under suspicion when we profess to tell merely 'the facts.' If a crisis is always acute and an emergency always grave, what is left for those words to do by themselves?" ¶ The Superfluous Adverb: e.g., definitely harmful, irresistibly reminded, or literally (as in the news report that Mr. Gladstone "sat literally glued to the Treasury Bench," to which Punch once added: " 'That's torn it,' said the Grand Old Man, as he literally wrenched himself...
Three 20-year-old youths are also under suspicion for the thefts, but local police have not found any factual evidence against them and can make no arrests without such proof. Two were recently released from prison...
Those who defend the measure point out that in recent years candidates for a commission were required to complete a similar form mid-way through their senior year. But this hardly answers the suspicion that suddenly giving freshmen the same tests is more ostentatious that efficient...
Barrows Dunham, Princeton graduate and chairman of Temple's Philosophy Department, was called before the Velde Committee on February 28, 1953, on suspicion of subversive activity. Dunham gave his name to the committee, but refused to reveal any other information--not even his occupation or educational background--under the terms of the Fifth Amendment...
Magazines sponsored by the U.S. Government have usually met with limited success abroad. The reason is that Europeans and Asians view any government publication with suspicion. A notable exception is Germany's Der Monat (the Month), a monthly with a Harper's format that was launched six years ago by the State Department as a "weapon against Communism and Naziism." Although its circulation is small (30,000), Der Monat has become the most respected and influential magazine in Germany, helped spark a renaissance in German intellectual life, which was stamped out by the Nazis. Read largely by intellectuals...