Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overoptimistically promised and now "scandalously overestimated," was no antidote. From everyone Americans and Britons met throughout Russia came the question: "Kogda zhe budet vtory front?" In Russian this meant: "When will there be a second front?" It also meant that 170,000,000 Russian people, bred to nationalism and distrust of the rest of the world, might lose the small capital of good will being built up by allies joined in a common cause...
...strategy was plain: nominate Dewey, elect Dewey, have a tailor-made Old Guard candidate established for 1944. But to a big group of Republicans who distrust Dewey, it would be very bad medicine to ride to victory on the tails of a man whom they regard as a mere political opportunist. They are far from sure that it would be a ride to victory. Many of them think it would be worse for their party to ride to victory with a group whom they regard as reactionary...
...noted for his tact. Gradually the more formal Puerto Ricans began to grumble at his blunt, abrupt handling of affairs. Sugar interests griped at his close association with swart, spaniel-eyed Luis Muñoz Marín, liberal President of the Senate (who once warned his followers forcefully: "Distrust all politicians-even me''). Officials' wives complained that Mrs. Tugwell was aloof...
...Daily Northwestern" has resumed its normal coverage; student indignation over an absurd policy which made their newspaper about as current as a 1920 Sears-Roebuck catalogue forced the University and the Board of Publications to retract their ruling. But bad taste and mutual distrust have remained...
...political pattern of the hemisphere remains that of international anarchy." The Latin American countries distrust the Colossus of the North. There is a latent conflict between Argentina and Brazil, an other between Chile and Peru. There is the old grudge between the U.S. and Argentina...