Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Federation of Labor's supposedly nonpartisan, predominantly Republican executive council, meeting in Miami, sneered that Lewis support for any candidate would be "a kiss of death." Most of the councilmen distrust the President as much as Mr. Lewis does, but for different reasons...
...issues - power rates, antiquated traffic laws, highway improvements. Last week he worked on his message to Congress. But if, like many a U. S. citizen, he looked back over the years between those speeches, it was to contemplate a period that future historians may well call the Age of Distrust. As the unsteady '20s had been the years of indifference, of wasted time and missed opportunities-when prosperity obscured blotches in the social system, gaping flaws in the economic structure-so the '305 were the years when U. S. citizens trusted neither themselves, their social system...