Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy. Textile exports to the U.S. and Europe are voluntarily controlled to avoid provoking tariff quotas; export licenses are refused for inferior articles in an effort to upgrade the longstanding Japanese reputation for poor workmanship and imitative design. In his effort to convince the West that Japan deserves less suspicion and more comradeship, Kishi can boast that his nation is the most democratic in Asia, has the highest literacy rate, and possesses a competent work force whose real wages have risen 20% in the past five years...
...officers to negotiate with their former fellow officers, the abuses are magnified." With that, Douglas released figures showing that 88 of the nation's 100 top contractors employed no fewer than 721 ex-officers with the rank of colonel and up. Douglas said darkly that there is grave suspicion that many of these men were hired as influence peddlers to assure fat contracts: "They didn't hire those 721 merely for their military knowledge...
Fireless Cooker. In Pacoima, Calif., arrested on suspicion of shoplifting a dressed chicken, Gene Woods explained that he put the bird under his shirt to keep it warm...
Behind the frivolity of abortive riots and half-hearted football rallies, the final year in college revealed a growing tension between fear of war and growing suspicion of the fascist regimes. On the one hand, the National Student's League tried to organize a general walkout on classes by students and professors to protest against the trend toward war. On the other hand, the dictatorships were watched, discussed, and often dismissed lightly as misguided, at worst. Professors, one by one, discounted the importance or durability of Hitler's regime. Articles by Mussolini, appearing in the CRIMSON, received little controversial attention...
...links with Shanghai, too, but no liking for it. The Communist Party of China was Shanghai-born in 1921; Red leaders, including Chou En-lai and Liu Shao-chi, had fought in its streets for control of the city workers-and lost. Mao Tse-tung viewed Shanghai with suspicion, believed that it was the "City of the Five Too-Manys": too many rascals, robbers, opium smokers, thieves and prostitutes...