Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither age, pain, nor liquor had dulled the intent and raffish gleam in his eye. His distrust of property men, doctors and small children was undiminished. His voracious love of life and laughs had not failed, and he still eyed the world with the spurious heartiness of a man with an ace up his sleeve. But his body was flabby and old, and his fiery, bulbous nose had become a shocking badge of suffering. Last week, after 67 years, death finally hoodwinked W. C. Fields, the noblest confidence man of them...
Mistake. In a few months Zhdanov turned his distrust in another direction. As boss of Leningrad, he was acutely conscious of a danger he saw from nearby Finland. His fear led him into the one great boner of his career: he persuaded Stalin that the Finns would collapse easily. After the courageous Finnish defense ended that delusion, Stalin made a somber crack to Zhdanov: "So things are going normally on the Finnish front, huh? Well, when the Finns get to Bologoe [halfway between Moscow and Leningrad], let me know...
From the beginning, its impresario has been Stanley Sumner, who serves as the manager and part owner (with Lindsey Hooper) of the incorporated establishment. Sumner initially had two obstacles to overcome--the deep-scated distrust of the University community toward so newfaugted a creation as the silver screen, and his own inexperience with a cap-and-gown audience. To help him during the first year of business, he hired a prominent undergraduate as floor manager, Roy H. Booth, Jr. '28, Pi Eta president and baseball team luminary, and, between the two of them, the U.T. got off to a roaring...
...thing, the rip tide of bitterness and distrust between Southern Democrats and Democratic left-wingers was widening. As representatives of P.A.C. I.C.C.A.S.P. and other left-wing factions held a council of war in Washington last week, there was dark talk of a third party...
...retreat to occupy the entire Christian Endeavor Building. Its new facilities will be oppressed into the good flight, especially into the campaign to enforce, in all seriousness, the Massachusetts law against fornication. Even with its new liberal outlook, this last outpost of holier-than-then may well find mass distrust among those who take their Sin along with death and taxes...