Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since there is conclusive proof of only 365 cases of murder by the Reds, Colonel Hanley's larger figure is open to suspicion of being "atrocity propaganda." The Allies carefully avoided such propaganda during World War II for an excellent reason--if backfires. Inaccurate charges of enemy brutality actually spur the enemy to further violations, and prompt our own troops to commit similar acts in revenge. Atrocity charges also stimulate the home-front hotheads (several senators called for "immediate atomic retaliation" Last week), and stiffen the enemy's will to resist. Colonel Hanley's inaccurate statement not only countered...
...suspicion is that the CRIMSON, in an understandable attempt to whip up headlines, got wind of some lab apparatus hooked together by a science freshman for elementary experiments. If that can pass muster as a still in and around Harvard we suppose it's all right. But we'd like to see the CRIMSON editor bring his find down here to the real pot-still and moonshine country. Amateur distillers here-abouts are polite, but they'd probably have a hard time staying so when they inspected the dainty jars and chromium pipes that constitute a collegian's still...
...today in 1951, so long as our present partnership endures. . . I believe we have a much better than even chance of keeping peace. But the opposite is true, too. If ever, in a mood of impatience with each other, or by allowing distrust and suspicion to spread like poison ivy,* or even perhaps by some single act of folly, we were to allow the friendship and cooperation of our peoples to fade, we might well wake up one morning to find that we had touched off the signal for the third world war to begin...
...Steele also seined up the fact that Alben Barkley, in 1934, successfully led a fight against a bill prohibiting any attempts by Government officials, politicians or members of Congress to influence RFC loans. Said Barkley then: "It seems to me that [the bill] casts a suspicion on everybody in Congress who might be willing to aid a constituent or a friend...
Most race riots in this country are triggered off by rumors of some aggressive act by a Negro, but "The Well" uses a new twist. This time a Negro girl disappears and suspicion points to a white man. There are immediate rumors that she has been attacked, but that the man will get off easy because of his color and connections in the town. Meanwhile, the whites wonder what "the niggers are trumping up" and when someone is accidentally knocked down on the street, rumors spread that he was attacked by a group of Negroes. At this point "The Well...