Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boeuf a la tartare is what fancy restaurants call raw hamburger. Some people like it that way. Some people distrust all this "processing" of news described above. They want their facts...
...Cambridge Civic Association, promptly developed a schism and gummed the work. Former Mayor John D. Lynch claims a supernatural mandate from the people. His dearest friend, Hyman Pill, has cast 841 votes for the man with a mandate. Messrs. Deguglielmo, Crane, and Swan, also of the CCA, dislike and distrust Lynch and have split their three votes among themselves. These men are the backers of Plan E. They are responsible for its continuing success in a city that still wants to be shown. If, through personal ambition and mutual dislike, they discredit that most excellent plan, one can only guess...
Mistrust. What they are charged with is (among other things) a lack of faith. They all have the same insincerity, the same distrust of anyone else's sincerity. They have the same raw ambition, the same bitter kiss-my-foot contempt for each other. They all have the same childish fretfulness of mind...
Though no one said so openly, the sponsors of "journals-for-export" (see above) were moved by the American's abiding distrust of Government-controlled news. If they needed grounds for their distrust, they now had a good example...
...Lorent worked for social reform with the Communists before the war. During the Resistance, he began to distrust them; now he hates them, and they hate...