Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have tried, by the offer I brought, to help India along her road to victory and freedom. But, for the moment, past distrust has proved too strong to allow a present settlement...
...taking it all back, the Hearst-papers ran a cartoon depicting Churchill's speech as the tourniquet on a British arm bleeding from wounds labeled "Nazi Fleet Escape" and "Singapore." Another cartoon pictured Uncle Sam with a gas mask labeled "Unity" while poison gas labeled "Distrust in Our Allies" swirls up from a cesspool marked "Berlin and Tokio...
...growing lack of confidence in Mr. Casner's office has begun to alarm 20 University Hall itself. This clearing house for Army and Navy press releases has professed an innocent ignorance of the sources of undergraduate distrust. It has referred part of it to an expectation of upset or vacillating students to have Mr. Casner make their decisions for them; and the element of truth there is undeniable. But this alone obviously does not explain the widespread dissatisfaction. It has begun to get around that would-be officers are almost automatically told about the Business School, the Marine Corps...
...general criticism of American journalism in the war, he remarked that "it lays too much emphasis on everything." This tendency toward sensationalism, he continued, tends to over-emphasize petty defeats and victories and to build up a distrust of all news released in this country...
...Deal or whatever we were opposed to had the same interest in the future of the country and the betterment of the people as we had. The oratorical extravagances that became the cliches of politics indicated much more than a quaint Americanism. They indicate a fundamental distrust that strikes at the very base of our democratic principles. In the twenty years before this war it might well be said that we lost the driving force that bound us together as a nation during the more illustrious periods of our history...