Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...desperate fight, even though he might have retired quietly on his honors without fighting. To many of the 40 great names of American atomic science and education, who flocked from their farthest retreats to testify to J. Robert Oppenheimer's character, it implied a special kind of suspicion aimed at one of their distinguished colleagues-and perhaps, they believed, at them as well...
Wear & Tear. In San Antonio, held on suspicion of robbery, Robert Middleton asked officials to transfer him from the city jail to the county jail, complained that he was living in unsanitary conditions, had to eat poor food, at night could not sleep because of the noise made by newly jailed drunks...
...principal danger to the University of the Congressional investigations of 1953 was the danger that the charges preferred and publicized by Committee members might undermine the confidence of the University's alumni in its faculty, and that the ancient freedom of this institution might be destroyed from within by suspicion and distrust. It was, indeed, precisely to the suspicion and distrust of Harvard's graduates that the investigators openly appealed. The fact that the alumni, as a body, disappointed these hopes and stood firmly behind the University's policies as developed by its responsible authorities is a tribute...
...rising storm whipped at the banners of Dwight Eisenhower's crusade. From Tonkin to Geneva last week, the atmosphere was charged with gloom, defeatism, suspicion among allies. In Washington the determined Republican efforts to contain the McCarthy-Army hearings failed, and new thunderheads spread over the Department of Justice and the White House itself...