Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat with a rugged individualist's distrust of the New Deal: he opposed the Third Term as a delegate to the 1940 Chicago convention, became a rabid Democrat-for-Willkie, was drafted by the Republicans this year when their original candidate died. Says Individualist Moore: "I consider money a tool with which to work. It's a responsibility and I've used it to give employment to thousands of men. ... I want to use my money in my own business to help build my country. That's my religion...
Divided Command. The nearer Hanson Baldwin got to the fighting front, the closer he found the cooperation between Army and Navy. At the top he found fairly close integration, with room for improvement. It was in the middle ranks, particularly among airmen, that he found the most recrimination and distrust. One reason: the Army's exaggerated reports on the role of Army bombers in the Battle of Midway (Baldwin: "The Navy's carriers did the job"). Baldwin saw Navy, Marine and Army men in almost identical khaki, working "in close harmony in combat areas," concluded: "There...
Next day glib, robust Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Laborite and cofounder (with Sir Stafford Cripps) of the leftist weekly Tribune, rose in Parliament to attack Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
Even a conservative can discover reasonable grounds for retaining the hammer and sickle at the head of one column on the ballot. Distrust of Communisnr springs from fear of its doctrines of violent revolution and of abolishing private property. Prevent them from voting, and all means of estimating the Communists true strength are lost. Discontent, moreover, is the source of rebellion, and suppression of the suffrage constitutes the single most effective method of breeding discontent in a democracy. So long as their candidates' names appear on the ballot, American Communists cannot charge that their rights are denied...
Later Pietro overcame his fear of death. Loss of that fear gave him an appetite for living which made any wealth beyond that of bare life ridiculous. It also gave him a complete distrust of theory and oratory. "Must I force myself to shout and sing," he asked, "if I have only voice enough for ordinary conversation? A seed of wheat beneath the snow is a poor thing; we might tax it with not having the value of a bomb or a pearl...