Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...There was a rapid legal examination. In two minutes, inspectors aided by interpreters fired 29 questions at a newcomer. Among them: "Are you an anarchist?" And the trick question: "Do you have a job?" A few proud would-be citizens could truthfully answer "Yes." But a yes answer raised suspicion that the newcomer was a strikebreaker-or had been conned into a slave-labor agreement...
...wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered a wing and dropped in flames to the street. All aboard were killed. Sá Carneiro's own Social Democratic Party was quick to dismiss any suspicion of sabotage. Airport employees reported that the Cessna was in such poor condition that mechanics had to help start the engines...
...marched against the forces of modernity. In 1930, as they sniffed the first whiff of smog at their writing desks in a university founded on the wealth of a New York railroad baron, the essayists of I'll Take My Stand shared, as Warren put it, a "dire suspicion" "that a great commonwealth has gone wrong." The enemy was industrialism, which they characterized as "an evil dispensation" and "a pizen snake." The issue was an intensely personal matter, almost a family feud...
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...their communities. In addition to economic pressures, Holmes said, minorities are not always made to feel welcome in an academic environment. "A minority student seeking a faculty career must make a lifetime commitment to be in a place he or she is not wanted. There is an undercurrent of suspicion that minorities are only here because of affirmative action." Holmes said that because of the suspicion, minority members are often not included in what she called the "informal tracking" for faculty positions which takes place while medical students are still in school...