SLUPPIE WORDS FOR THE DAY -- SUSPICION, SPECULATION
COMMON USAGE:
"The justifiably dumbfounded and SUSPICIOUS Sluppie, being deprived of knowledge of the facts for 19 months, was left to his imagination to SPECULATE as to the cause of SLUP's demise. Thus, the justifiably dumbfounded Sluppie contemplated the meaning of various news reports. Because those with the facts kept them secret, the justifiably dumbfounded Sluppie, being determined to find reasons, was forced to contemplate the meaning and significance, if any, of various historical facts such as those contained in the following:
National Public Radio
December 7, 1998
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
Teamsters and Corruption
Linda Wertheimer, Washington, DC; Noah Adams, Washington
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MICHAEL CHERCASKI, FEDERAL PROSECUTOR, ELECTION OFFICER OVERSEEING TEAMSTERS' ELECTION: It's hard to have the perspective that I as a prosecutor in New York saw the Teamsters Union dominate and control the way cement was delivered and a whole series of key economic ingredients were in fact dominated by the Teamsters Union and therefore the mob and it had a strangle hold in New York and in other places across the United States.
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Don Gonyea, NPR News, Washington.
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