Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than a year as an investigator of German cartels gives Bernstein his background for asserting the danger of giving economic encouragement to industry in the defeated country. He is expected to stress the distrust that this would engender in such nations as France...
Abraham Lincoln distrusted biographies and seldom read them. His son, Robert T, Lincoln, shared his distrust; he included in it the biographers of his father. He seldom gave them help and never encouragement. As a result, when Lincoln scholars recently scrambled to Washington to see the Lincolniana that had been ordered sealed until 21 years after Robert's death they found few surprises and no answers to some of the major questions abou Abraham Lincoln's life...
...cannot be denied that a generic resemblance to "Going My Way" exists. Both Fitzgerald and Crosby have abandoned priestly robes for the simple garb of small-town doctors, but the relationship between the two remains roughly the same, progressing from initial distrust on Fitzgerald's part and disinterestedness on Crosby's to something approaching mutual adulation. To take another example, in "Going My Way" a big project was a foot to build a church for the old priest; in "Welcome Stranger," it's a hospital...
...would disrupt "human relations." "It would encourage distrust, suspicion, and arbitrary attitudes . . . remove the settlement of differences from the bargaining table to courts of law . . . inevitably embittering both parties...
...future. In the United Nations alone the world powers have the opportunity for peaceful discussion and cooperation on all phases of their activities. Though the U.N. is weak, it wields as much power as the great nations could be expected to grant it in the present state of mutual distrust and misunderstanding. And in it are contained the seeds of an honest-to-God world government which can be realized as knowledge and tolerance increase...