Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There Francis won the dislike and doctrinal distrust of "tall, dark, thin, intense yet sardonic" Father Tarrant. When Francis ventured: "Surely, sir, creed is such an accident of birth God can't set an exclusive value on it," Father Tarrant answered icily: "What an admirable heretic you would have made, my good Chisholm...
There is great mutual distrust between the Labor Party's middle-class politicians and official leaders, like Attlee and Greenwood, and Proletarians Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison. Another irritation is the distrust of both these factions for the leftists. Mrs. Strauss sees them all as so many Joys and Glooms. Among the Joys: Ellen Wilkinson, Sir Stafford Cripps ("affectionately" called "Christ and Carrots" Cripps because he is a vegetarian and "a deeply convinced Christian, although not a churchman"), Welsh Coal Miner M.P. Aneurin Bevan, John Strachey ("a big sleek black cat, with perfect manners and a feline ability...
...Distrust of Winston Churchill's leader ship was best summed up by the University of London's brilliant, leftish politico-economist, Harold J. Laski, who wrote...
...Germans are trying to use food as a weapon. To people who'll work in their factories and camps food is a bribe. We can use food as a weapon too, for supporting those who share with us a distrust of totalitarian governments...
...Labor has responsibilities as well as rights and there can be little lasting benefit when all considerations are given to one side and all responsibility is placed upon the other side. When distrust and suspicion are fostered and when one labor faction is pitted against another, the end will be that labor will finally lose all it has gained...