Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bandits found a single Liberal in the local jail, held on suspicion of aiding the bandits. Freed, this man showed Tulio's boys two drums of fuel intended for a local power plant. "If only they hadn't found that fuel!" mourned a San Pedro survivor later. Tulio ordered the town's homes burned, to flush out any possible police ambush, but forbade his men to fire the church or the school...
...Spite & Suspicion. The Poage amendment was beaten. So was an amendment guaranteeing a four-month freeze as of July 7 on all wages and prices (except rents and farm prices), whipped up by James C. Davis of Stone Mountain, Ga. to embarrass the Administration and give the coalition the alibi that they had tried to get "real" controls. The amendment would enrage labor, which is still trying to get wage "readjustments," would freeze all present price inequities which Di Salle would like to correct...
...main, the House voted with its stomach, not its head. Congressional spite and suspicion, centering on Harry Truman, and parochial self-interest accounted for many a vote...
...Iran. The White House went on to say that Grady's relief had nothing to do with the sticky Iranian crisis, or with the departure of Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman to look it over (see FOREIGN NEWS). It was one of those denials that give color to a suspicion which need not exist. In Teheran, white-haired "Snowball" Grady complained loudly at the White House's inept handling...
...Surveillance means most nearly (a) continued confinement, (b) indefinite parole, (c) constant protection. (d) unwarranted suspicion, (e) close supervision...