Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radical movement. On Jan. 2, 1920, Department of Justice agents converged on radical hangouts and hideouts, rounded up 3,000 suspects the first day, blackened the administration of Woodrow Wilson as charges of injustice, of violations of civil liberties, of sluggings, third-degrees, left a heritage of suspicion of U. S. laws and U. S. courts. The radical movement recovered, but not the political fortunes of wavy-haired, square-jawed A. Mitchell Palmer...
...time of confusion and panic, of scrimping, self-pity, despair, of painful reform of the social system, a time when Al Capone and Richard Whitney at last went to jail and many a liberal as stubborn as George Norris at last got a hearing-a time, above all. when suspicion flourished as wildly as had the speculative fever in the days before 1929. No two correspondents could agree about President Roosevelt and the budget, the Congress, the third term. But none of them doubted that he was the man of the '30s, of the decade that ended...
When Britons, who like to spend especially cheerless afternoons by the fire reading Tchekov, Turgenev, or Dostoevsky, want to describe a person whose deep gloom is relieved only by occasional starts of dark suspicion, they say: "Frightfully Russian." Frightfully Russian were Russians last week. Citizens heard almost no official announcements about the campaign in Finland-except that Russia's defensive warfare against aggressive Finland had reached points 90 miles inside Finland's borders. But in the streets unhappy Russians heard ugly rumors...
German defeatism was a blanket answer. Mustard-gas shells aboard the Spee, discovery of which would have created a stench in neutral noses, was the height of British suspicion. Fear that Uruguay or Argentina might become an ally, and turn the interned Spee against Germany, constituted a political answer (see p. 18). None of these answers was approved by non-Nazi naval men, whose code demands that a ship of war shall continue fighting just as long as she can do some damage to the enemy...