Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort breeds not only contempt but disobedience. But the lieutenant who sees his captain or even his colonel staggering out of the bar at the officers' club will have the same feeling toward him as a private would, and at the same time the privates do not seem to distrust their sergeants after they have gone off together on a weekly tear. The very way in which the sergeant is taught to become a real influence over his squad is by living with them, eating with them, and getting to know them as well as he does his own brothers...
...carried out the policy of social direction that he helped to make famous. He was an individualist in his actions without adhering to laissez-faire; he was a collectivist in his program without adhering to the bureaucratic state. He had an abundant faith in human goodness and a tolerant distrust of human frailties. The strength of this precarious balance of thought lay in its being made up of a belief in the value of reason, an immense ethical fervor, a concrete and massive knowledge, and a firm insistence on our limiting ourselves to what is compassable. "When things become...
...Russia was given her first concrete evidence that Britain was an actual ally. Diminished was the possibility that Russia might make a separate peace with Hitler out of distrust of the democracies...
They objected in particular to the New Deal's fomenting consumer distrust of advertising by describing it as "economic waste." Said Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold: "Advertising is in reality a social liability...
Republican distrust of him is based not only on the fact that he, a Republican, has joined the Cabinet of that man in the White House, but that he, like Wendell Willkie, has consistently backed the Administration's foreign policy...